… I seem to be a verb

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"I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun . . . I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe."

R. Buckminster Fuller

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    TGAUU: A Script (Draft?)

    I have been spending a lot of time with my old work. I have been asking a lot of questions, interrogating these old forms, old essays, old ideas.

    I'm not totally sure where it has gotten me so far, but, let me run through a few themes that are definitely recurring.

    • Sustainability
    • Reuse > The Vernacular
    • F/LOS > The Commons
    • Technology intervening to try and simplify things? Or just technological intervention...
    • Appropriate Technologies
    • Fluidity, tool agnosticism?

    I like to use computers

    I like to make art

    I don't care if my definition of design isn't society's?

    How can you as a cultural creator do something?

    I'm terrible at real activism.

    ???

    Just start at the present?

    1. Here are the current things I'm thinking about, trying to work on...
    2. Here's what is utopian about them.
      • ???
      • Attempt at Sustainability (conceptual Reuse)?
      • Attempt at F/LOS
      • Attempt at Free Culture?
      • ???
    3. And here are some older things that led to me being at the place, thinking this way, doing what I am doing.

    Why is the Utopian Important?

    So doing these things in different ways, it IS important. It shows another way forward, or potentially MANY other ways forward. If we go back to this future speculation diagram, (show the FutureCone), then we see that as potential futures spread out, if we start aiming way outside of the probable, way further out into possible, or even impossible, we start to affect WHAT IS POSSIBLE. So, thinking through these things in whatever utopian lenses you have HELPS everyone else... ???

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    I have been going through a lot of old work, old writing, old lectures, just all of my past “work.”

    What kind of useful revisionist history can I tell about all these pieces that a) make a useful connection between all of my work, and b) create some new understanding...

    Is one of the connections my own understanding, my interest in seeing how things are connected, seeing where I can better learn? Is the connection an exploration of various technologies? is the connection an ever growing desire to access more tools?

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    Big Ideas Climate Designers EssayADay Journal Lecture Prompt Utah Workshop 202103111331 Workshop

    Workshop ideas for University of Utah Visit Ideas

    • I am combining three important things in this workshop:
    • This workshop needs a name.
    1. Workshop
      1. Free Culture > In The Beginning Culture was Free!
        1. Design Tools/elements
          1. Flickr Commons
          2. Typography and Open Source
        2. Vernacular
          1. Stewart Brand and How Buildings Learn
      2. Climate Designer
        1. Project Drawdown
        2. UN Sustainable Development Goals
      3. Clear, Easily Iterative Deliverables
        1. Posters
          1. Some sort of series?
            • why posters?
            • can "posters" be interpreted in some way?
          2. 2 posters – the posters are in communication with one another?
            • Reuse my poster project prompt from AD1 w/ sandie and isaac?
          3. 3 posters – they are iterative? they build on one another?
    2. Readings
      1. Refernce the AD1 Invisible Cities readings?
      2. AD1 Grating exercises readings?
      3. The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem / http://fromkeetra.com/Downloads/TheEcstacyOfInfluence_JonathanLethem.pdf / https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence/?single=1
      4. Writing Bodies, Litia Perta
    3. Questions
      1. What is it?
      2. When is this from?
      3. Where is this from?
      4. Who made this?
      5. What made this?
      6. What is so great about this?
      7. What drew you to this?
      8. Why does this exist?
      9. How do we create meaning?
      10. How do we decide what is "good enough" to give to another person? and does that matter?
      11. How do you reinvent the visual presentation of a familiar product?
      12. How do we discover new ways to reimagine and promote common forms?

    The Actual Prompt?

    Clearly articulate due dates and expecations.

    PART 1

    An experimental, expressive graphic exploration that responds to the source material (Drawdown or UN Goals!?)

    • Slideshow with bibliography
    • 12 experimental compositions, explore type only, image only and type and image combined

    PART 2

    Two posters that create a dialogue about your topic and that challenge your audience to think critically.

    • 2 printed or animated posters, sized to your discretion. Each poster must use a grid, have 3 levels of hierarchy including a heading, 200 words of text and at least one image.
      • what all of this means of course is up to you: the size, grid, etc. should all make sense based on your approach... how can you "make meaning" through selecting these design elements – not just through your text/image choices?

    Wk1

    Create a typology study:

    • Make a list of 10 words that describe your topic.
    • Find 3 aphorisms or quotes that describe the topic.
    • Look at digital and analog resources and collect images, illustrations, diagrams,

    patterns, etc that illustrate the topic. ** What literal objects represent your topic? ** What metaphors apply to your topic? ** What possible allusions can you make in design, art, architecture, literature, history, etc, to your topic? ** What personal influences and interests would you like to combine with your topic? * Present as a PDF slide show with your words, aphorisms or quotes and image research. The last page should be a bibliography of your sources.

    Wk2

    Create 12 experimental compositions

    • Make twelve 8x8 inch collages.
    • Explore the form-making potential of the words and images you have gathered by manipulating both type and image.
    • Consider both analog and digital manipulation of letterforms and images.
      • How does the meaning of words change if you use a different typeface?
      • How do the compositions communicate your specific interpretation of the topic?
      • How can you use type and image to communicate spatial relationships and environments? Consider shadow, plane, perspective, overlay and depth.
    • Go wild with experimentation! What you can do to alter an image or typeface?
      • Abstract, make it modular, texturize, pattern, cut, tear, float, fold, frame, mask, project, adorn, alter...
    • Present compositions

    Wk3

    Create a poster series

    • Make 2 posters that express different aspects of your topic. The points of view can be complementary or contrasting.
    • Build on your experimental compositions. Discover coincidences — both visual and language-based.
    • Is there a composition that could be used as a grid for one or more of the posters?
    • Could you combine two or more of the compositions?
    • Have you discovered a certain technique that you want to replicate in the posters?
    • Use a grid!
    • Poster must have 3 levels of hierarchy and include a heading
    • use at least 200 words of text and at least one image
    • The definition for what a "poster" is can be variable: traditioanl poster? small?giant? billboard? building? website? animation? video? app? what is a poster for and how does a different medium or framework still do that?

    Wk4

    Critique: Posters due

    – Present however necessary for your poster concepts.

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    Workshop Ideas for University of Utah Visit Ideas

    1. Climate Design

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    Getting Real Make Opinionated Software Quote

    Ward Cunningham and friends deliberately stripped the wiki of many features that were considered integral to document collaboration in the past. Instead of attributing each change of the document to a certain person, they removed much of the visual representation of ownership. They made the content ego-less and time-less. They decided it wasn’t important who wrote the content or when it was written. And that has made all the difference. This decision fostered a shared sense of community and was a key ingredient in the success of Wikipedia.

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      Conversation with Byron Anway

      How do you start with a source, and then how do you make it your own.

      So they've been doing some cool things already

      Relief imagery?

      So they are watching the videos

      And they are documenting a lot of work so that they make a community library of content.

      They are making a remix!

      some sort of visual remix.

      Sampling from the imagery of their peers to create something new.

      One way that this is easy is to think about translating to a new medium or dimension.

      show the imagery that you use. as a starter presentation.

      Tuesday group: almost all other majors; Thursday group is all graphic designers

      They do all these other writing exercises... generative self investigations. Can we use these in some way?

      So they have all this source material, how can they say what they want so the resulting thing IS theirs???

      Here are musical riffs I like, and I want to make this a dance song... so here's how I speed up and cut up and pitch shfit and loop... what are the equivalents in visual form making?


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        020210601223047 Ideas

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        utilize the [triple bottom line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line) in judging design's effectiveness / https://www.are.na/block/5258725
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        To utilize the triple bottom line as an effectiveness judgement, you first need to know what the triple bottom line is. This is in general, people planet profit – social sustainability, environmental sustainability, economic sustainability — trying to gauge sustainability by how it functions in all these spheres, not just one. So effective design then must be design that is economically, socially AND environmentally sustainable. (viable?).

        • (A VENN DIAGRAM OF THE TRIPLE SUSTAINABILITIES OVERLAPPING)
          • oh, and here is an interesting image too:

        Yeah great. But wtf. What does this actually mean! I've been saying this and thinking about it for over a decade. How does this help anyone? how does this help a designer?

        Typically, design's effectiveness is ONLY measured via its economic viability. Does this cost too much? Is this expensive to produce? Does this designer charge too high a rate? whats the ROI? what did I make having spent this design budget? how many new customers did this mailer generate? etc.

        Well, the triple bottom line would say, no more. You cannot ONLY judge "success" of a design on these economic metrics – does it generate a lot of new leads BUT ALSO generate a lot of new carbon pollution? well, that's ineffective design! did we make a lot of books at the cost of slave labor in an overseas printing facility that also pollutes the surrounding landscape with heavy metals and VOCs? BAD DESIGN!

        The goal here is to migrate the thinking around what "good design" is – there is good design and bad design; instead of good "normal" design and then some other kind of sustainable design and then maybe bad "normal" design… ANYWAY. We should have "Good Design" > design that is socially, environmentally, and economically concerned, and then bad design – design that is only concerned with one of these things…

        How does this move us to a different paradigm for teaching design? for making design? for evaluating design? How does this get us away from pure aesthetic judgements of "quality" in a design? Does this allow for other concepts than pure formalism in the discussion?

        How are other industries or companies using the triple bottom line effectively? where and how else do I research this? how can this be a selling point to a client? how to market oneself this way? triple bottom line designer? does that bring me new clients?

        What is social sustainability? how does one design for it? do the precious plastics things fit into this? is collaborating with the united workers, with the Zero Waste people, is that socially sustainable? Does finding clients that are doing this stuff the right way for a designer to get into this?

        There are some good questions – what is a designer to do? find new clients? find new projects? or bring new thinking and tools to all the old projects? Can you do this AND work with everyone you used to? does some value shifting have to happen and then suddenly you are in a different place? a different space? and you can't work with or communicate effectively with those from before (_Everything is Fucked_ has something about this; newtons laws sections… didn't highlight while reading will have to go back!?).

        What is effective design? we have to define that too? When is a design effective? I guess it depends on what the design is for. A design that causes the intended behavior change is effective. A design that communicates the intended message to the intended audience is effective. Using the triple bottom line gives you some external objective constraints to help measure this no? Behavior changes, messages, things that harm social constructs or environmental systems in the name of economic "gain", these can no longer be effective with this criteria.

        Side note: how to use tiddly wiki or roam to help with this? how to insert footnotes, references, etc?

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        25th June 2021 at 12:57am
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        Design should pay renewed attention to human values like poetry, knowledge, culture, but also our basic needs in relation to contemporary challenges, like housing, mobility, clothes, food, and water. (page 15) / https://www.are.na/block/4660751 (From _Designing Everyday Life_ https://www.are.na/kristian-bjornard/brn-designing-everyday-life)
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        Baltimore, Maryland,

        How might design pay more attention to basic needs like housing, mobility, clothes, food, and water? what does "design for better housing" look like? how about "design for improved water quality" or "design for improved water access"? Are these the kinds of things that are enabled, the kinds of design problem seeking that is unlocked, once you measure design effectiveness with something like the triple bottomline instead of exclusively the economic bottomline?

        Where do I turn my own work onto these types of things? how to turn my own designing and thinking and practice towards these basic needs? Housing, mobility, clothing, food, water, these are all things that also can play into different Project Drawdown "solutions."

        Is this a useful way to interact directly with the city of Baltimore? is this how to think of new content for coursework? Is this a good way to frame project briefs? Is this a good way to identify problems.

        Side note: Design as problem finder, not problem solver — more on that sometime?

        Do I need to differentiate between "Graphic Design" and "Design?" ??? Do I care for my own practice? When I say design, I am meaning "Signs on Substrates" or "Signs Signaling" — Signs on Substrates Signaling Sustainability!? Every gesture is a communicative tool, so its all graphic design, even if its also a sculpture or poster or cup or lamp or farm field!? So, design to improve water access, this is a graphic design project, even if its not a PSA pamphlet. How do I interact with those kinds of projects? how does graphic design? how is that brought into the design classroom? Why is this so hard for me to wrap my head around and explain? Am I trying to hard to have this make sense, be explainable, what can I just accept and move on with?

        So, Sustainable design is design that pays more attention to housing, to mobility, to clothes, to food, to energy, to water, to social reform, to music, to trash collection, to waste… It pays closer attention to those things, so that more actual problems can be identified. It doesn't need to solve all of them (is that an out of date modernist idea???) but show the pain points more clearly, show the opportunities more clearly, provide the lens someone else can see a solution through? see THEIR PERSONAL solution through?

        Whew, by paying more attention to these things, hopefully one also notices more alternative experiences? like how do we pay attention to these things around the city and let it show us not only design opportunities, but allow us to see the ways in which other people experience and interact with food and water and shelter.

        We can also talk about these things not as human centric only: design for better housing could also include peregrine falcons and white tail rabbits and cicadas and little brown bats — how are all these other species ALSO housed better? How can design be little brown bat centered, not just human centered? Or, even Dinoflagellate centered, like designing the harbor to be a better home to brackish water loving eukaryotes AND people!?

        Starting to think like that begins to surface more opportunities for visualizing the nodes of connection; how "EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED."

        If everything is connected, then designing for better housing for people means we also need to design better housing for bay oysters. My house is connected to the land around it which is part of the greater watershed which is part of the bay which is part of the Atlantic which is part of Spaceship Earth… How does protecting a piedmont forest protect the bay and protect my home?

        What housing constitutes good housing? what is better housing? Whose criteria, what criteria do we use? Are there multiple? once there is good housing, then there is obviously bad housing. What to do with the "bad" — destroy it? rehabilitate it? abandon it? recycle it? repurpose it?

        Good: Simple row houses? my own old stone house? Bad: McMansion; some big Roland Park houses?

        When is a house too big? When does a house use too much energy? how does class and race and place and culture play into that decision? Why should we have so much private space? Where does the commons and collective ownership come in? how about communes? other kinds of living communities? how are they about "better" housing or "better" water utilization?

        When these things are the goal of a graphic designer, of a graphic design process, what changes? how does designing for better mobility lead to new or different design techniques or visuals? Are there old tropes we've used that say "mobility" that are no longer useful if we need a sea change? All new visual vocabularies? by learning a new we train our brains to a different understanding. What visual synergies exist to pair the ancient with the novel? There are plenty of solutions from our past, this isn't just a young person's game; this isn't just the purview of tech start ups.

        Why am I so cynical and bitter and angry.

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          Shit, this was from TED2010!? So bill gates says that energy and climate are the most important to the kinds of people that the Gates Foundation helps…

          As we make energy cheaper we have to contend with the constraints of releasing too much CO2.

          Innovating to Zero. it is important. We have to stop emitting CO2.

          • CO2 = P * S * E * C
            • P > people
            • S > services per person
            • E > energy per services
            • C > carbon dioxide per unit of energy

          We're not going to do anything about the people, we want to help people, not purposefully get rid of anyone. Services, well, we need to increase health, education, utilities, etc. to all people. We can do something about E and C. P and S will increase for now, P might start to go down in the next decades, if other things can be done positively!?

          unbelievable scale and unbelievable reliability

          Investigate more: Bill Gross > eSolar, Vinod Kholsa, Nathan Myhrvold

          • 2020 > 20% reduction in CO2; by 2050 we need 80% reduction in CO2?
          • 2020 > zero emission investigations; by 2050 need zero emissions tech deployed everywhere

          So Bill Gates' wish for "one important thing by 2050" was that "something that gives us energy for half the cost AND no co2 gets invented" – this is the highest impact…

          • More basic research funding
          • market incentives to reduce CO2
          • Entrepreneurial opportunities
          • rational regulatory frameworks

          Innovate to zero. Useful goal, useful objective way to measure "success"

          20 years to invent, 20 years to deploy... we've spent 10 years of that invention budget, are we doing okay?

          If you make it make economic sense, then it doesn't matter if it makes climate sense. Is that a rational approach to take? why talk about the climate at all then?

          ≠≠≠

          What did I learn from that accidentally 10 year old video? what questions for design does it bring up? Does it again provide objective criteria for helping define or evaluate "good" designing?

          I mean, for sure, graphic designing that helps with Gates' checklists is "better" designing then. AND oh man, that drive energy per service down, the drive CO2 per unit of energy down, variables in the equation of "net zero" are good design metrics. What materials to spec? what processes to spec? how to power my laptop? whether or not to even use a laptop? These all become important things.

          How might new projects fit into this smartly? Are my "spontaneous lamps" good project exemplars for this? how about the precious plastics tooling? what about just our silly yard and house conversions? How can things that I do as gestures showcase these other kinds of innovative thinking and working and the other future possibles that are available? That's what Bill needs right? If we want to innovate to zero we also have to VISUALIZE the alternative possibles for people to excite them about innovating more and faster and better!?

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            Eco-friendly. This is a kind of shorthand for "Environmental Sustainability." I think it has some semantic issues; it can easily be used incorrectly; but, it is understandable to people in a way that other things – sustainability, restorative, etc. – aren't.

            Define: Eco-friendly

            So, if something is not environmentally harmful, does it bring along a different set of aesthetic judgements since a different set of manufacturing and material judgements have been used? If the normal way of making and transporting and selling things IS environmentally harmful, what's an environmentally un harmful capitalist machine for making, transporting and selling? Do the visual aesthetics that have helped create our current situation need to be abandoned or replaced along with all the other systems?

            Cradle to Cradle outlines a situation where most of the systems in terms of commerce and society stay the same, but the tools, materials, systems, processes for manufacturing are totally transformed. In that system, well, some aesthetics would by their very nature change, some materials wouldn't exist, some structural, built forms would have to be abandoned due to energy waste, material squandering, etc. but most of the wrapping, most of the signs on substrates, they could probably stay the same. There's a slightly different message to communicate, but in the end, the goal is the same, make more, sell more, get happy and fitter and more successful through consumption, but let's just make sure its the right consumption. [Need to cite some things for this, probably would need to elaborate on my point, not just flippant].

            But is that possible? is that desirable? Eco-friendly it may be in theory... How does that change if more commons based practices are utilized?

            A Tesla is perhaps a good example. Teslas are meant to look like cool contemporary cars. They are designed to take advantage of and add too contemporary luxury car culture. This is a status symbol that you own. This is about individual ownership. This is about speed. While a Tesla might be eco-friendly compared to an equivalent luxury gasoline sedan, the goal of being faster, the goal of being shinier, the goal of being nicer, the goal of replacing cars 1 to 1 with this other "better" car are not. These ideas are still about more, these ideas are still about the past and present ideas of what a car is for, what constitutes coolness in cars. That in and of itself is not eco-friendly. Real eco-friendliness is no cars right? or foraged bamboo pedal and wind powered wheeled vehicles… Where do Tesla and Polestar fit into that ideal? How can you design a system that after existing for a little while designs itself out of existence? a car that through being sold replaces OTHER people's cars! This is sort of what services/ownership models like Lynk+Co do – you individually buy the car, BUT! you can lend it to other people in your network easily.

            Okay, but that's not about aesthetics right – What kind of cars look eco-friendly? the solar powered ones? the EV1? the little things like Smart Cars? For buildings and cars where there are objective forms for measuring more or less energy wastage aesthetic choices can be tied to other important choices… or rather are the outcome of other choices. How does this work in choosing a typeface or image or page size or paper stock? How do all of those choices lead to new or different or alternative visuals.

            What does eco-friendly look like in the first place? does everyone picture green leaves and brown paper and hand written lettering? do people picture sleek modernist forms indicative of big tech like Apple and Stripe who promote their "eco-friendly" choices heavily? IS eco-friendly looking synonymous with crunchy, granola-y, burlap of old?

            Why do I always get hung up on this idea. Why can't I let this go? Why must I have an answer for this quandary?

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              Okay, so how does this help one be a better climate designer? a better sustainabilitist? a better designer period?

              MISSED THIS ONE!

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              • Prompt: Rehash 020210604, Who said eco-friendly needs to look eco-friendly?
              • current CO2 ppm: 419.76 ppm

              So why do I get hung up on the aesthetics question, on the what do things look like hill? it is because of IDEOLOGY and how art, how visual culture communicates IDEOLOGY through its visuals.

              What something looks like tells you something about the ideology(ies) it represents or it desires to come from. Modernism as a style HAD an ideology at first, the way it looks come from radical ideas about society and art and design's place in society...

              the best for the most for the least.

              Okay, so eco-friendly looking things should have an agenda. Or rather an eco-friendly agenda should result in a specific kind of style that then visualizes eco-friendliness.

              1. I believe this to be true. Forms represent ideologies.
              2. However, if your only goal is form making, you can just replicate forms and accidentally (or purposefully) remove them from their ideologies.
              3. You can make something appear to have an ideology by utilizing a form from a specific ideology – using "urban" graphics like graffiti, etc. to make your high end sneaker "edgy" or whatever.
              4. There are more complex ways to grasp "what something looks like" however, and we need to migrate this conversation that way.

              I get hung up on the form part of things. But I forget, form is a subset of content, and that is a subset of context. So, we need to look at contexts, we need to look at interconnections and audiences and messages and whatever else and let that lead us to forms.

              This is a good time to just go into the form <> content <> context discussion. That needs a write up too! (Andrew Blauvelt reference; Ellen Lupton? did she ever talk about this at large or just to us in grad school? what else do I say about it? oh, Christopher alexander has a lot about it in notes on the synthesis of form and more.)

              Once you have forms that represent ideologies though; you really easily get into territory where the form disconnects from said ideology – or is transfigured to represent a new or different ideology.

              I find this complicated in the world at large. For example, small social enterprises that are designed to look the same as a giant corporate bank... what to do about this? where else to look for new forms? how to not appropriate something else incorrectly? can new forms be constantly invented, is that even worthwhile or sustainable? what does eco-friendly look like? even that is a good question. is it the stereotype – crunchy granola brown and green things – or is it that the "looking eco-friendly" is because all the eco-friendliest choices were made for materials, processes, etc. and whatever form that manifests, that is what eco-friendly looks like; and so that might be malleable for different quantities of something; or different kinds of projects result in different "forms" despite them all being eco-friendly?

              Does this get harder or easier once you get into "design for the welfare of all life"?

              transition to my various versions of my Nebraska talk from March 2021. What other ways did I try to explore and explain this? how can I illuminate all of that previous thinking more effectively?

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              Written from
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              Sustainable? FLOSS?

              How does one move towards a more sustainable graphic design practice?

              • Part of my solutions are transitioning clients, materials, etc. towards “better” options;
                • what "better" means is relative of course, but in general lower energy, less materials, safer materials, etc.
              • my GNU/Linux (F/LOS generally) experiments are another;
              • Reusing old design ideas another. (Design-A-Days; Kit-of-Parts)

              One might ask if spending hundreds of hours trying to relearn a workflow and tooling in GNU/Linux is sustainable (the general open sourcery is SOOOO much work to transition too)? But! I am more than capable of reusing much older computers in this realm, so there is a possibility for not having to get NEW computers anymore?

              The GNU ecosystem is fully into reusing old ideas — just reusing ideas period.

              The ecosystem for libre tools is more like a natural ecosystem: evolution; variations due to minor differences of philosophy or habit or desire; a plurality of solutions… If the way our tools are built and evolve is more like natural cycles/processes; does that allow those tools to fit into our lives, society, and culture in more "natural" ways? (natural meaning finding harmony with nature; being more "a part" of nature rather than "apart" from nature).

              Do the ideals of F/LOSS align with the ideals of sustainability?

              Does "all humans and other life should flourish" fit into F/LOSS as an ideal?

              Where and how do my interests in Design serving a flourishing/welfare of all life agenda and my interests in F/LOSS overlap; how are they additive; how do they serve each other. Are they negative or at odds with each other?

              • Our current capitalist constructs DO NOT improve the welfare of all life;
              • the origins of F/LOSS are anti-capitalist — or at least anti valuing making a buck over the good of your neighbor — so, if you have to use software, F/LOSS is more likely to AID you in helping all life flourish than proprietary/non-free softwares. (Is this provable? or measurable?)

              Waste = Food

              Free software can allow for more creative waste to become creative food. And, WASTE = FOOD is a sustainable ideal. So, does that make free software more sustainable?

              Waste = Food; what other ways can I find that this is true for creative kinds of waste? As I mentioned before I think that in some ways F/LOSS improves upon this equation.

              Is this also how vernacular patterns/building come into the picture — are free/libre open models the new vernacular (is that how I make my designing today more like the way say a Cape Cod house comes together?)

              Waste = Food is a great idea to apply to more things than just the natural world. Here's a great prompt: the earth's major nutrients are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, & nitrogen ... what are graphic design's major nutrients? (and! how can they be cycled and recycled into new graphic design indefinitely?)

              Dunne and Raby propose that design should explore activities and outcomes that question and challenge status quo industrial agendas—however! for the most part the designers doing this are still using status quo tools! Sustainability (at least the flourishing variety I am interested in) is NOT the current status quo; so if I am challenging the assumptions of contemporary design and capitalist consumerism, then I need non-capitalist consumerist tools to do that with—enter F/LOSS.

              Sustainable Graphic Design is a mindset, not a checklist of "the right" materials

              • If you have the right mindset, but still use the wrong materials, does it matter?
              • If one uses better materials, but for the status quo aims, does it matter?
              • In what ways can I change how I work and live to yield immediate results?

              Sustainable graphic design does not exist.

              Sustainable graphic design does not exist. that might mean "there is no such graphic design that can count as sustainable — its all wasteful garbage that does nothing good" — or — sustainable graphic design doesn't exist meaning that it comes together to serve a communication purpose; deliver a semiotic message; and then redistributes back to whatever energy and matter it was before.

              The point is not that literally you can't make it (though that is sort of what I was thinking at first), but that a graphic designed thing that is sustainable comes together to communicate the message it needs to communicate; and then can dematerialize back to its initial parts once the communicative need is over. How does "signs on a substrate" translate to "pieces coming together for a determinate amount of time and then returning to their constituent pieces"

              Sustainability is about knowing what you want to sustain. Libre tools are about a person's freedom to do what they want. If I don't want to sustain our moderno-techno-capitalism, then I should probably use libre tools while creating alternatives... what do I want to sustain though? It is easy to say what I don't want to sustain; less clear to say what I do want to.

              If sustainable designers don't make design; what do we make? who do I need my next clients to be? If I am all in on the sustaino-libre stuff; what are the kinds of things I must investigate? And, how does being a "graphic designer" play into all this when/if/as my projects become more about software development; more about building bicycles; more about actions or interventions; more about proposals and plans?

              I know I like to say how the sustainabilitist principles project exemplifies "sustainable design does not exist" since the objects came together to be a sculpture for an exhibition and then went back to being the objects afterward — but how does that work for other kinds of projects? can I work with clients and still pitch that kind of solution? (do I have examples????)

              Should sustainable design look intentionally different to tell everyone that its not the same? If the paradigm must shift; then the styles should probably shift as well to be clear that they are in all ways different? By just using different tools and typefaces and image sources do you do this? does it need to be more extreme than that?

              What is perennial graphic design that is restorative to culture — that protects and builds cultural health? (the same way that prairie grasses build and protect the soil health of the plains?)

              What does "graphic designing" do to heal and restore the world? how can making anew unmake all the old?

              What are local and reusable materials for visual design? making my own paper? creating sheets of remade plastic "paper"? digging and making my own clay to make tablets out of? firing pages that way? what do I produce with those things? plates to print from? stamps? seals? do I draw and compose right into clay? what else allows me to put "signs on substrates" in a meaningful way that continues to let me "graphic design" but really does something about material usage; education; communication; etc???

              Am I a sustainable designer? or am I a sustainable person that happens to design — everything I design is thus influenced by my sustainabilitism.

              What is the goal of "designing." If everything is a design project; is making new forms important; isn't just fixing what needs fixing an example of "good design" — does the solution need to be novel? (If I design and sew a traveling silverware roll using salvaged cloth and found silverware is that any less of a design project than designing a new folding "hobo knife"?) IF the answer is no, it's not different, then wtf, what am I doing, what am I teaching? If the answer is yes, it is different; do I want to be a "designer" then? Why not just a vernacular crafter or builder? Is this counterculture modernism? Whole-earthers did some things like this right? Zomes? Papanek's coffee can radio? A lot of reuse; but with the goal of making things people need in the moment? Still new things; but a repurposed or reconfigured materials based on what is at hand; what is readily available? What is design: making things we want? making things we need? Solving problems? what problems? whose problems? What does it take to let "sustainability" or "restorative design" take a hold in mainstream culture/society? does it need to be more of a religion? more of a political party? Do there need to be more movies or kids shows or whatever that fully embrace doing something about climate change as their theme to affect a change? Regular TV news? obviously the current journalism does little. Why? What else can I speculatively brainstorm? science fiction books are a plenty. Can we make this a WWII like "war effort" to fight the evils of climate change? Reframe everything in the context of us against the greenhouse gasses — C02 increasing is the same as the Nazi's winning Europe? What other ways of framing this are there? I need to try more! That's another potential win for Graphic Design — communicating this in as many ways as is possible.

              How does graphic design take carbon back out of the atmosphere? what can communication design (meaning what can signs on substrates) do to get carbon out of the air and into the ground? to keep carbon bottled up? does making bricks of plastic and then shaving them into paper help? does making my own paper from used clothes and scrap paper help? what else can I do??? just picking Risograph isn't enough. Just buying some renewable offsets isn't enough. How does this bake into designing generally? to design pedagogy? to society at large?

              Stabilizing the climate isn't about reducing emissions, we have to _zero_ our emissions. Instead of just lowering things, we need to stop completely and then actually remove carbon from the atmosphere. Driving an EV doesn't cut it. replacing a car w/ a used bicycle & your lawn with a permaculture garden is a much better start.

              to change a system; intervene in small ways around the edges ... at some point that system will react to those changes and be made to change ??? small is not less important than big in a complex system.

              Designing Tomorrow's World Today: What design does this; what did the messaging around Ozone depletion look like? What about Carson's _Silent Spring_ related anti-chemical rhetoric? what about WWII "we need you" type things? Oh man, that's a great resource — war time propaganda posters. Does that stuff work now? what is cultural convincing design now? what is design that causes people to follow and just do?

              Survival of the most generous interconnected groups.

              life-affirming design thing.

              Every graphic design problem's answer is not a book; or a poster; or an identity... it is not necessarily a visual design problem; superficial 2D surface decoration isn't the answer to every problem — though the thinking of a designer might reveal an interesting solution still... Can it always be framed as signs on substrates (signs on surfaces?) even if not a visual "answer"?

              if sustainability is a cyclical, restorative, resilient, flourishing, non-anthropocentric, maintenance-based, stewardship, co-existing thing...... what? you cannot expect everyone to understand what you mean by sustainability — so do we need other words; or do we just need to say that we mean all those other things when we say sustainability. it is a shorthand sign for all those other words...

              Design is about connections. Design is about bringing people and ideas and problems and solutions together.

              Design only works when it is trying to achieve a success for the planet; for the welfare of all life.

              We do not have unlimited energy. We do not have unlimited resources. How does this change our relationship with designing? With capitalism? with our economic ideals?

              What do I want to sustain? What does the welfare of all life really look like? really entail? How do you actually design for this? What kind of design challenges structural inequalities and balances equity, ecology, and economy? Design that collaborates so as to create lasting, positive change in one's community?

              020210608235140 Ideas

              17th June 2021 at 10:57am
              Word Count: 352
              EAD EssayADay Journal

              Writing for 30 minutes a day is turning out to be complicated. I am not good at reserving time for anything I just tack it all on at the end. This is not sustainable.

              If design only works if it is trying to achieve a success for the planet, then in general design is always failing.The laptop I write this on is a disaster; my home I write from a scar on the land. What destruction has my life and my constant need for energy and resources caused? how do we make amends? how does design make amends? what is the goal? designing away design?

              I'm not making it today. My mind is empty.

              Journal or essay?

              what is the point of this exercise? to generate content? to clarify ideas? to what end? for whom? Is this useful for me or for others? who is my audience? designers? or general people? Practitioners or academics?

              I watched part of _Jurassic Park_, this idea that we're meddling with things we still can't grasp or understand; that our earth's systems are beyond our control and we need to stop trying so hard to be the Earth's rulers... that all resonates.

              Maybe I need some better plans or constraints for this? like not just picking a prompt, but trying to find something that needs more explaining? trying to find something I feel that I don't quite understand or can't quite explain and that could be better illuminated?

              I need to do some stretching. Yoga everyday, writing everyday, where is the time for building legos with one's kid! How to give up other things for the common good? not just materials, resources, but wasted efforts, wasted time. How to read again? when did I last finish a book? so sad. That's not sustainable either!

              how do I make this more usable? more searchable? more reusable? more build-upon-able? do some of these things end up as their own documents? their won essays? is it worthwhile to keep absolutely every thing in one foolishly gigantic text file?

              020210609235050 Ideas

              17th June 2021 at 10:56am
              Word Count: 44
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt
              Written from
              Baltimore, Maryland, Bedroom

              do I need new clients? new ideas? new directives?

              Are there exemplary designers doing this in a way that I find aspirational? I mean there are the occasional projects that come along that I say "wow" too; but actual design practices? Perhaps Sanctuary Computers?

              020210610234514 Ideas

              17th June 2021 at 10:32am
              Word Count: 7
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt
              identify materials, processes, technologies, and strategies that improve social and ecological conditions / https://www.are.na/block/5249392
              PPM
              420
              Written from
              Baltimore, Maryland, Patterson Park

              Also, what is this: https://theopenbody.com/

              020210611134039 Ideas

              11th June 2021 at 11:50pm
              Word Count: 192
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt
              how can I make this a better process? how to make these more usable? how to make this exercise sustainable?
              PPM
              420
              Written from
              Baltimore, Maryland, My Hot, Humid Basement

              How can I make this more usable, refernecable, make the ideas build upon each other more AND end up more shareable out in the world at large as I work on it? how can I then easily post things on medium and such too!?

              Okay, what if I write these in a tiddly wiki? I can then make each day's effort a tiddler; ideas can be cross referenced; shared definitions can easily be added/created/evolved. I can then also figure out how to make it a live site! and maybe even host it on my own little pi server on the local network, and then figure out port forwarding to get it live from the house!? That could become my own litle solar powered web server.

              So, that sounds like a good thing to try the next several posts – make this a tiddly wiki. I'll add all that here to this repo i guess? then its easily shareable across my machines until I figure out how to get a little raspberry pi server going.

              The rest of this 1/2 hour will be spent setting that up I guess!

              020210611233512 Ideas

              17th June 2021 at 10:51am
              Word Count: 39
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Written from
              Baltimore, Maryland, Dining table

              Okay cool. TiddlyWiki appears to be working. And I have it installed on my Linux machine and the mac machine via node.js instructions. Coolio. We'll see how this goes as a way to write and interconnect more!

              020210612000631 Ideas

              17th June 2021 at 10:38am
              Word Count: 205
              EAD EssayADay FLOSS Journal tiddlyWiki
              Prompt
              How might my yard be a sign for signaling sustainability?

              This is really for 020210612!

              I've got a tiddly wiki setup, and man, doing it with Node is so much easier to version control, etc. All the bits and pieces end up their own bits and pieces, and then get compiled into the site at the end I think? anyway, its a little easier to conceptually manage than just an HTML file floating around with literally everything inside it...

              Onto other things. Today is related to Signs Signaling Sustainability

              How might my yard be a sign for signaling sustainability?

              I was thinking about this as I worked outside today – is my yard a sign signaling sustainability? do all these wildflowers and carefully pruned fruit trees and other random assortment of perennial and annual plants "signal" something clearly or usefully? Do they say, hey, here is an alternative way to live? here is an alternative way to garden? here is an alternative way to participate with the environment? is this even useful? The neighbors seem to like the yard's evolution? but, is that good enough? does it inspire anyone else to do something? what else can I do? how can we retain more water safely? how can we become a habitat for more creatures?

              020210613233554 Ideas

              27th June 2021 at 2:30am
              Word Count: 355
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt
              Making Sense of my Mind!?
              PPM
              Written from
              Baltimore, Maryland, Bedroom

              What do we want? what do we need? What can I do to have a plan? make a plan? do more? do less?

              The goal for our house? carbon neutral by 2025, carbon negative by 2030? how does one get there? and just the house? what about our f-ing lives? What can graphic design do to help with this? why am I caught up with this label? why stuck feeling like a graphic designer? why not artist? why not maker"? why not just person?

              I am a Person Doing Person Things. How do I just go about being okay with that?

              Why do I waste time on things that don't matter. Like trying to make custom styles for things like slack and my tiddlywiki? is it worth it really!? come on.

              How can I make my OOKB palette more accessible? higher contrast? how to make it more usable, more reusable, through the constraints of accessibility. Is this a learning opportunity for me? is this a "sign signaling sustainability" of some sort or another?

              this project isn't going very well. Why am I so negative? do I have adhd? am i depressed? how does one find this out? I guess you just ask doctors? is procrastinating doing that a sign that one has those things? why procrasticnate how does my mind make thiese connections? why do I ogo over and over again on the same things, while also going out and out again on wild goose chases???

              Can I please get to anything I actually hope to? The plastic stuff!? please! crhis how do we proceed?!?!

              This wiki can quickly turn into something useful from a class/sustainabilitist perspective.

              Stuff that would be cool to do and get done: * reach out to various people in Baltimore I could foreseeably help?

              020210615073230 Ideas

              16th June 2021 at 1:19am
              Word Count: 940
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt
              When have you thought 10000 years into the future? How does the long now foundation help anyone in the present?

              Why think that far into the future? What is useful? if we look 10000 years into the past do we see anything resembling that far off thinking from before? Do indigenous communities think this way? there is the 7 generations thing, that's not 10000 years, but its at least a 150 years into the future!?

              10,000 years ago (8,000 BC): The Quaternary extinction event, which has been ongoing since the mid-Pleistocene, concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave bear, cave lion, and the last of the sabre-toothed cats. The mammoth goes extinct in Eurasia and North America, but is preserved in small island populations until ~1650 BC.

              10,000–9,000 years ago (8000 BC to 7000 BC): In northern Mesopotamia, now northern Iraq, cultivation of barley and wheat begins. At first they are used for beer, gruel, and soup, eventually for bread.[48] In early agriculture at this time, the planting stick is used, but it is replaced by a primitive plow in subsequent centuries.[49] Around this time, a round stone tower, now preserved to about 8.5 metres (28 ft) high and 8.5 metres (28 ft) in diameter is built in Jericho.[50]

              10,000–5,000 years ago (8,000–3,000 BC) Identical ancestors point: sometime in this period lived the latest subgroup of human population consisting of those that were all common ancestors of all present day humans, the rest having no present day descendants.[51]

              (from wikipedia)

              The interesting part of thinking 10000 years in the future – or the past – is that it is a moving target. As we move forward in time, 10000 +/- is also fluid.

              But if we think about 10000 old people and societies; well; the difference between us and 10000 years ago us is pretty staggering. So, trying to presume what 10000 year future us might be like, well, f, that is hard. So what is the point of a group like the Long Now Foundation? Why try to think this far in the future? Can we out think natural cycles that we don't seem to be able to understand or control? can we look back 10k then SEE some patterns, and try to use that to predict? Do we say, what COULD things be like 10k in the future and then invent the things we WANT for that future instead? (Future Possibles)

              Brian Eno likes to say, when asked about Long Now, well, have you ever thought 10k years into the future before!? THAT's why we're doing this. It isn't necessarily about solving anything, but about forcing people out of their thinking patterns, get us out of short term immediate thoughts, actions, objects, into mcuh much larger, longer ones. Even a sky scraper for instance, that wasn't actually invisioned to last even hundreds of years? did any architect when designing a fanciful apartment megaplex think, what might happen with this structure 50 years from now? 100? 500? 5000? Does anyone think this way about anything they create?

              If there is a project with Sue Spaid and Patricia Johanson this type of thinking will have to be an important part of the project: how does time affect design? Signage for an outdoor environmental park? one way would be "indestructible" objects, things meant to last forever! but! as we can surely see from our own histories, unless something is hidden away, it doesn't really last forever. Some rock with elemental clay pigments on it in a cave sheltered away can last tens of thousands of years, there is some graphic deisgn with longevity, but some signage outside in the elements? that needs a different thought process. How can they grow? evolve? adapt? be reborn as nature ravages them? Instead of man vs. nature and a nature proof solution, was is a with nature solution? are there kinds of plants that can be grown to BE the paths? can we train some trees or shrubs to outline where to walk, what direction the next things are in? to grow into benches for visitors?

              So, what about my own house? my own work? something useful in thinking 10k in the future is – if there should be no trace of me, then F, how do I make sure there is no trace of me? how to I stop using 10k+ life materials – like terrible plastics – and embrace more natural and long term but correctly degradable materials? I should probably stop resin-ing and spray foaming everything right? My tree posts!? do they have a lifespan that matches the trees? fruit trees don't usually live a lot longer than a couple decades, the posts should last about that long, and replacing them with something metal or whatever instead would be easy enough – or even just starting to replace them yearly with new foraged bamboo?

              in How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand does talk about how all buildings around the world used to use about 250 materials or something, and now (or at least in the 90s when he wrote is) there were like 10000 different materials... that's probably useful to mention or dig into more somewhere? right? like do all creations have this issue now? so many new and different and technical materials, things with little to no connection to natural cycles or common maintenance or easy replace-ability? What ramifications does this have for graphic design? home life? our future selves? our 100th generation in the future ancestors?

              020210616002436 Ideas

              17th June 2021 at 10:40am
              Word Count: 5
              EAD EssayADay Journal

              I've got nothing today...

              020210616012503 Ideas

              5th July 2021 at 1:24pm
              Word Count: 146
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt
              Solve some tiddlywiki issues?
              Written from
              Baltimore, Maryland, My dining table

              I am trying to figure out how to show some links to and from things on these tiddlers, but when empty nothing shows...

              I am also trying to figure out how to build a cool dynamic list of all the prompts I've used, so far that is a bust too.

              I also wish to point out that "signs signaling sustainability" could be a direction to take some of this web stuff too? does that become its own prompt? how to explain everything as a potential SSS!?

              How do I preset journals to have the requisite fields for my rambling writings?? is there a way to standardize the answers?

              this wasn't really a writing day as much as a figure out some cool tiddlywiki things – is that getting in the way now of actually trying to write anything! ugh. Always the procrastinator

              020210616234259 Ideas

              18th June 2021 at 3:27pm
              Word Count: 594
              Alternative Energy EAD EssayADay Journal Renewables So Many Questions
              Prompt
              PPM
              419? recheck
              Summary
              Muse on why solar power is useful symbolically, as well as all the other ways one might show other ways of powering a life.
              Written from
              Baltimore, Maryland, Dining Table

              Is there an actual good reason to put solar panels all over one's house and car and driveway and side yard and whatever else? Besides just jumping on a renewables bandwagon, besides just getting in on the love for solar, what are the other design opportunities, the other communicative possibilities? Does a big array on one's house show other's a way forward? does it do anything at all? can we really make this work with just solar panels? we use so much f-ing power!

              What kind of useful thinking can I bring to this? Do we actually know the ramifications of the objects 25+ years from now? what about all the material resources needed to make them and their intermittent nature?

              What kinds of physical, lo-fidelity energy storage can I put on my house? how many "watts" of power can I get out of a few gravity batteries from my roof line to the ground? where else can we try that? Would union brewing be interested in that?!?

              These are all additional Signs Signaling Sustainability opportunities: show people interesting new ways forward! Future Possible generating.

              Why go solar? Good Question! are these renewables really important? are we creating a different kind of energy problem? how might design help in this? what needs communicating? what needs changing? how can life adapt to maximum power generated only at certain times or certain kinds of days? where are there other opportunities for storage and generation?

              If I go solar, how do I manage to reduce power consumption? what do I get rid of? how can more things be actually "off" meaning not drawing anything at all? is ever constant high speed internet a necessity if we want to solve climate change? are multiple computers and tablets and printers and tvs and stereos and all kinds of lights and gadgetry needed? do they need to be always instantly on and available? what if the house was rewired to limit where things could be plugged in? how many things could be plugged in – do you want a light? or a phone charger? do you want to listen to the stereo or wash the clothes?

              When do things all go to DC power? why do all my lights need to be ac but really run on DC? if more of the house was wired to be on tiny LED and electronics DC power, does that make having alternative power generation, storage, and experimentation all more possible?

              Is that a good sculpture idea for MICA: some sort of gravity battery to put on each of the buildings? hang off the edge of fox underneath that giant globe – or off the backside where the freeway can see them where there is an extra floor of drop!? from the clock tower at station! No we're talking.

              ArtWork Opportunity: Gravity Battery > gravity battery for MICA station tower? or off the backside of Fox or Brown???

              There is a former RCA professor, who now is in Portugal I think that has some sort of gravity battery project. Reach out to him!? > it is James Auger >

              What other ways of capturing wind power are there? And how can say a hot roof be captured not just as a place to lay solar panels on, but also to create convective updrafts to turn something!? In theory isn't any hot day beating on my roof – even with panels – just creating a natural hot spot that will then drive air currents upward? is there some sort of ridge roof turbine opportunity!?

              020210618092042 Ideas

              6th July 2021 at 12:38am
              Word Count: 126
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt
              Written from
              Baltimore, Maryland, My Dingy Basement

              Compare Sustainable GD with non-sustainable GD… do we first need to define Sustainable? Do we need to define Graphic Design? Is Status Quo synonymous with non-sustainable? I mean, it is right now — but so the goal would eventually be Just Design and Bad Design.

              What would be comparing? clients? outcomes? materials? processes? tools? energy sources? all of the above?

              Instead of adjectiving design with “sustainable”, we need sustainable design to just become design and design of today to become bad design.

              How does that conversation start? how does coursework evolve to reflect this? what to do with all those old text books?

              Places that explore this idea:

              Modified This Day:

              020210618101820 Ideas

              18th June 2021 at 10:28am
              Word Count: 39
              Journal tiddlyWiki

              I tried adding: https://github.com/snowgoon88/TW5-extendedit

              still not quite figuring out adding these things via the local node.js version...

              okay! edit-comptext is now working, I just didn't have the folder structure setup correctly!?

              020210619001230 Ideas

              19th June 2021 at 12:14am
              Word Count: 7
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt
              Design as a personal, ideological, or political action is important and useful; design as an industry is not. Why train students to be part of an industry? Why not train them to be active parts of the world?
              URL

              Ideology and design. Political action and design.

              020210619233357 Ideas

              6th July 2021 at 12:37am
              Word Count: 618
              EAD EssayADay Journal
              Prompt

              I am sitting here wishing that I could use more and other and different tools. Why only for my frivolous flights of fancy do my "other" tools work? I can use TiddlyWiki and GNU/Linux and Inkscape for my own pursuits, but I never end up using them for client projects – why!?

              And, why F/LOSS To begin with? Why should I care if something is Libre or not!? is "free" vs. proprietary, open versus closed? How does that fit into sustainability if at all?

              Sidenote: these aren't really essays, sorry to say, but they are random thoughts, that sometimes get explained or further opened up!? Now, how to use them? and why make this open? License?

              If Everything Is Connected, F/LOSS and Sustainability have to be tied through some set of steps. Some Six Degrees of Separation sort of thing.

              I was led to open source BY sustainability. I was led to free as in freedom because of climate change concerns. In the thinking I have found useful for my Sustainabilitist Principles, connection to open work, vernacular systems, learning from the past and what is around you, reuse, replicating, etc. have all been there.

              I initially went to find open source fonts. I read Ellen Lupton's Free Font Manifesto probably when I was starting grad school? I was also thinking that if true sustainability had to account for all sorts of social responsibiity and work around the globe, we needed more adaptable systems – part of this was fonts in more languages, and one of the few fonts I found was open source!? As well as the idea that we might have access to more things than others, so can we make more tools, solutions, and culture shareable and accessible and adaptable. Anyway, this led me to open fonts. Which was funny, as I had gone all in on Drupal already, and was singing the praises of open source from the perspective of web code, tools, tech...

              Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn felt like it was really about open source technology. These vernacular buildings Brand was analyzing, these were free as in freedom structures. The process for integrating new building solutions over time matches Eric Raymond's analysis of Linux development – a group of people working together to find and solve bugs; when one person solves the problem, everyone gets the solution!

              Where does this start to live in visual design? in sustainability at large? in climate design? in sustainable graphic design? in signs signaling sustainability?

              So, Free/Libre Open Source is necessary for Sustainability. Natural systems aren't proprietary right? countless animals have covergently evolved similar traits, tenrecs and lemurs in madagascar for example filling niches that all kinds of other mammals evolved to fill elsewhere... The difference I guess is that they don't intentioanlly share that information; they just over time adopt the same "solutions" because any creature can get htere, and once there are penalized by the creatures that already got there???

              Natural systems vs. capitalist ones? vs. human ones? how do we learn from natural systems, but then speed up the sharing or co-evolving? Where does adaptability and resilience come in? what things HAVEN'T been resilient? what have? Jellyfish as a species have; ferns as a species have; arachnids as a species have? what do we learn from them? how does one survive an exitinction event? how does one quickly evolve usefully? how does one re-shape themselves to their environment? how might we instead reshape our world for ourselves? or for the welfare of all life?

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                20th June 2021 at 11:19pm
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                What do I want to do? What do I want to sustain?
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                Do you just feel stuck? do you feel like you are just moving forward in time but nothing you do really matters or is that much in your control? I mean, that sounds sort of depressing. I guess its not like I'm not in control; its more like I continue to end up in the future without having made much of the present or my past? There were plans, grand ideas, and then, poof, time is gone and none of those things happened. It probably isn't too late, but other things just happened instead and now it seems hard or impossible to do the others... this is so general and non specific.

                Do affirmations or mantras actually help? how many times do I chant "I want to sustain the welfare of all life" before it becomes true? before I do something useful about it?

                Be Do Have.

                What am I stuck on?

                What do you want to sustain? not what I have going on right now. I am miserable. The state of things seems pretty bad. Our country divided. Resources depleted. I'm in some sort of rut. Is being transparent about that helpful?

                What don't you want to sustain?; What do you want to abandon?. Is that a useful question? What to stop doing? What should we stop designing? instead of what can I design for you client person with metrics?

                In learning about our world, it seems odd that we a) are so concerned with "preservation" of nature, of buildings, of whatever. Entropy is a fundamental law of the universe; everything tends towards chaos; entropy moves towards a maximum. The idea of "preservation" – at least with how its done right now, is sort of anti entropy? what instead is a more entropy embracing ideal? entropy embracing processes? how do you design and build WITH entropy instead of against it? Okay, so what do I want to sustain? well, dynamism that works with entropy. What do I want to sustain? how about biodiveristy. Now, after millions of years, earth always bounces back from whatever extinction events we've had in the past. So, I mean, the earth will probably be fine. But! presuming we humans want to hang in a place that is more or less like the one we've been evolving in, well, what can we do instead? do I care about sustaining the polar bears? do I care about sustaining maximum variety of tenrecs in madagascar? or do I just care about sustaining human habitable earth?

                E. O. Wilson talks about "Half Earth"; how we have to keep half the earth free from humans and let the animals alone... But this doesn't seem like an option. Or even how the history of the earth has worked – humans have always BEEN A PART OF NATURE. WE ARE NATURE. WE AREN'T SEPARATE; THAT'S WHERE ALL THE PROBLEMS COME FROM; THINKING THAT WE ARE SEPARATE!?

                So we can control our environment a bit? so what! so can beavers. ants farm fungus. certain creatures when they end up in new places kill the old creatures. This is a part of nature. Terror birds in south america; they got eaten by giant cats coming down from Central and North america!? I don't know where that train of thought is going.

                The big fish eat the little ones.

                Where does this all fit together? The idea of leaving the world, half the world anyway, alone, well it presumes that we have half the world to turn back over. do we? who do we have to move to make this happen? More importantly, can we not just make our habitats better suited for other life to live as well? Maybe that's the real issue – not that we need more "nature" but that humans need to allow for more other lives in our cities, houses, etc.

                What does design for all life mean when you are urban planning? what does the welfare of all life mean when you are building a house? what does the the flourishing of all life look like when you are deciding how to generate power? how do we even define human existence in the future if we are accounting for these other things. If we get back to acknowledging our part in the web of life; our part as FELLOW travelers on spaceship earth > here we go, the trees and corals and scorpions and komodo dragons and toucans and kangaroo rats are all our fellow shipmates; they are the crew WITH us... no one should be allowed to go down with this ship; there are no life rafts; stop listneing to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk; who cares about Mars, who even cares about going to the moon some more; do something positive about spaceship earth! WE ARE ALL ALREADY ON A DAMN SPACESHIP; WAY BIGGER AND COOLER AND MORE COMPLEX THAN ANY OF US WILL EVER BUILD.

                So Many Questions; so few solutions. Well, do we need solutions from me? just problem finding? problem space pointing out to be solved by interested parties to their contextual aims!?

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                I want to sustain reducing energy consumption. I want to sustain dynamic, resilient habitats. I want to sustain that the Chesapeake bay is habitable by all kinds of creature, that people can utilize it recreationally?

                I want to sustain reading books; drinking pleasantly perfectly plain pilsners; enjoying coffee; different cultures; all purpose bicycles.

                I want to get rid of individually owned automobiles, gasoline, enriched foods, soy everything.

                I want to sustain helping people; improving life expectancy everywhere; innovating energy creation and storage; what happens in a meadow as dusk; walks in the woods; sunsets in state parks.

                Who owns this land if we don't? can I make my tiny piece of private land a commons again? what happened to the commons? why is individual ownership of everything seen as superior? who does that benefit? I don't feel like it benefits me – and yet – I'm terrible at sharing and collaborating and collectively owning things...

                I want to sustain DOING SOMETHING about what I think needs doing. So, writing things down, trying to be helpful, making some more tutorials and explainer videos? How does this play out longer term?

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                    27th June 2021 at 2:31am
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                    Okay, well, is this working so far? I wrote a few things... but then I've gotten overly concerned with this tiddly wiki stuff. How can I use this platform for WRITING better moving forward? How can I start something, then flesh out the components? Do I try to Create An Outline as a prompt? Then each day or week try to elaborate on those things; then elaborate on those things; etc? that seems like a good plan. So, then what would be the "outline"? Do some days I just go through the missing tiddlers list and try to fill things out? When do I go back and try to connect more things together? when do I add my own ideas and questions? how do I pull out the questions I keep asking myself!!!!!!!!!!!!

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                      23rd June 2021 at 10:16am
                      Word Count: 176
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                      It is morning. I am waiting.
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                      Baltimore, Maryland, Kitchen Counter

                      It is morning. I am waiting.

                      Waiting on a project; waiting for myself to get motivated.

                      I can always seem to find a way to stay focused, to figure out what to do next. Everything is a reaction. Is that natural. Do trees plan; is everything intentional; are they reacting to their environment continuously?

                      Is there a better job I could be doing? is RUNNING a graphic design business not the right thing, is just doing other peoples tasks/projects what I should be doing instead?

                      These construction guys look like they're having a good time. They get to be outside, build real stuff. Help people a little some of the time; not with made up things – like a website for invented objects just to be sold – but people who's wall is caving in or house is leaking. That's real right?

                      What is this obsession with real? is this really a question of "value" like what do I find valuable? Perhaps I need to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance again?

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                      24th June 2021 at 10:51pm
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                      I am eating cherry pie. It is good. I am supposed to be thinking of clever things to say about the jones falls. Why is that so hard?

                      Visits with friends. Visits with family. These things are so strange, so foreign seeming.

                      I keep missing a lot. Appointments, scheduled meetings, deadlines. I was pretty bad at this stuff before; but the way things still are turning out? its just enhanced all my problems with focus and time management and paying attention to what day or time it is.

                      What else can I do or write about? I am at a loss today. I will go through some missing things and fill in and connect.

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                      27th June 2021 at 4:54am
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                      really? nothing?

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                      27th June 2021 at 4:59am
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                      Well... as soon as I sat down to write... kids wokeup. f.

                      Okay. what prompt shall we use today? is my design good design?

                      How do you define good design? Ethically good? formally good? socially good? environmentally good? economically good? all of the above? This question led Dieter Rams to his Ten Principles for Good Design — what should it lead a contemporary Sustainabilitist to???

                      Good design = formal goodness.

                      This is frequently the main "good" I think people are talking about right? That something LOOKS good? How does "looking good" evolve when you are using the triple bottom line for your judgements? (see: 020210601223047 Ideas)

                      Good Formalism = Modernist Formalism

                      And this is the problem right? the way we teach and understand most design disciplines, they are stuck in the mindset that what makes "good" design are the things that make "modernist design" — following the instructions for modernism = making good design. That is the recipe. NOT following the instructions for modernist design just gets you to bad design.

                      Maybe this is fine, sometimes. But this misses a lot of alternative content and contexts. Right? Like, is modernism as a style always correct? is modernism as an ideology always positive?

                      This overlaps with the Form <> Content <> Context things I frequently think about.

                      Good formalism(s): what makes a good formal answer?

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                      28th June 2021 at 2:46pm
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                      Written from
                      Baltimore, Maryland, Random side chair in a corner while I am having an anxiety attack

                      What does sustainable Graphic Design look like?

                      Why do I keep coming back to this question?

                      I believe that aesthetics matter.

                      I believe that aesthetics are a visualization of an ideology

                      Having a specific ideology should bring with it specific aesthetic choices.

                      Modernism is my favorite example of this... I should probably do my own revisionist history lesson on why modernist things are the way they are? And how that relates to moderno-techno-consumer-capitalism?

                      Okay, so you have ways of thinking.

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                      29th June 2021 at 2:16pm
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                      I am failing at my endeavor.

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                        30th June 2021 at 2:18pm
                        Word Count: 64
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                        Free Culture > In The Beginning Culture was Free!
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                        Baltimore, Maryland,

                        Free Culture > In The Beginning Culture was Free! (from Lecture Ideas for Utah Workshop intro)

                        If culture was free, what happened? when did people learn that by controlling culture and cultural production they gained power? Is this something that was learned early on? Why do we continue to let this happen? If culture WAS free, why can't we just go back to that?

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                          2nd July 2021 at 4:05pm
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                          29th August 2021 at 11:33pm
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                          What is the way to keep this growing intelligently?
                          Written from
                          Baltimore, Maryland, MICA, Brown Center Office

                          So, I made it a month, sort of. This is proving to be harder than I thought. The format is getting in the way of just writing. My inability to focus and being pulled in too many directions by life, kids, house stuff, work stuff, school stuff, climate stuff, whatever, means I don't dedicate the time each day this plan requires.

                          What can I do less of? what can I stop? what am I okay missing out on? Maybe those are new questions to ask?

                          I am reading this book, The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO), and that's a key element: What are you willing to miss out on? How can I figure this out with my wife and family so that we as a small group can start being more sustainable? how does that trickle then out to others? the rest of our families? our friends? our community?

                          What do I have to miss out on to do the things I wish? What do I wish to do? I have to answer that in the first place? this is like the What do you want to sustain? question. You have to define that; state that; to then actually define what is next!?

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                          2nd July 2021 at 1:02am
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                          Written from
                          Baltimore, Maryland, Living Room Floor

                          John Ehrenfeld states in the book FlourishingThe key to doing something about sustainability is that you first have to say what you want to sustain.” Ehrenfeld wants to sustain that “all humans and other life should flourish” (pg 23). Using Ehrenfeld’s thinking, Sustainable Graphic Design is design made for clients that believe all life should flourish, design made to promote messages about sustainability-as-flourishing, and design made with materials and processes that promote and sustain the state of flourishing too.

                          Graphic designers are form makers. Sustainable graphic designers must make formal decisions. How does the sustainable designer concern themselves with the forms and aesthetics of a solution? Are there visual choices that are more sustainable? What form says “I believe that humans and all life should flourish?” Are aesthetics as they relate to sustainability even important?

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                          What do you want to sustain?

                          How does this question influence one's designing? are there materials that then one can't use? how about power sources?

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                          29th August 2021 at 11:33pm
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                          Written from
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                          Graphic designers are form makers. Sustainable graphic designers must make formal decisions. How does the sustainable designer concern themselves with the forms and aesthetics of a solution? Are there visual choices that are more sustainable? What form says “I believe that humans and all life should flourish?” Are aesthetics as they relate to sustainability even important?

                          I relate aesthetics with form.

                          I relate form with the external surfaces of an object — its shape, size, scale, color, edges, material appearance, etc. But do I have an incomplete idea of form? This is what leads to the "Are there visual choices that are more sustainable?" question. What are the exterior signaling opportunities?

                          • Typography that minimizes ink use?
                          • Typography that minimizes page count?
                          • Type faces themselves that takes less energy to load/use on a computer?
                          • How about the Sara De Bondt printing mainfesto? (I updated it myself w/ permission for the Ecovention Europe catalog).

                          Aesthetics and beauty? beauty and form?

                          Related to Form <> Content <> Context

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                          29th August 2021 at 11:33pm
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                          Maintenance and more.
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                          Baltimore, Maryland, Bedroom; in bed; written in notebook!!??

                          Some thoughts on maintenance.

                          I sat down at the end of the day and decided to fix some old shoes. The shoes themselves are not particularly nice nor are they particularly well made. As is true of most shoes these days, everything is just glued together... the places of most wear have had their glue bonds break and all the seams and such a pulling apart... So, I figured I would just glue everything back together. Now, I have a couple different kinds of glue to try – but I thought one way to make the "maintenance" meaningful was to use Sugru – its a silicone rubber "glue" that starts out as little chunks of moldeable putty. It comes in various colors, and so "fixing" with it decorates what you are fixing in an intentional way.

                          Do ideas/techniques like Kintsugi ... Are things like that kinds of Signs Signaling Sustainability? When objects age; receive maintenance; and then wear that on their sleeve as a badge of honor, does that help signal a different way forward? noble? am I ego trapping this?

                          What should a repair look like – should they be invisible? should it be as little repair as possible? can you overrepair something?

                          The point of this was, hey, what is an interesting way that I can make these shoes last a little bit longer? what else can I do to get a bit more wear out of them? AND can we show others that they can fix or maintain their things by HOW it is done – make the repair intentionally signaling.

                          How is every design a communicative design? how does one "graphic design" when you aren't making a poster or book or sign or website?

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                          6th July 2021 at 12:10am
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                          Written from
                          Baltimore, Maryland, Dining Table

                          I started re-reading Victor Papanek: The Politics Of Design. Its got some great thoughts and a really useful timeline of work/ideas — how Victor Papanek's work fits in with all this other work happening at the same time. The timeline is called “Papanek's Life and Era.” I wish I could have seen the show this book is the “catalog” for...

                          In reading this again, sort of skimming through as a form of procrastination today, I am jus again reminded that "designing" isn't necessarily putting a pretty exterior on something; its not about decorating a surface. Design is about finding something you think isn't working, and trying to make it work!? finding someone that has a need and doing something about it – with them, not for them.

                          I ordered a lot of new seed today — grass seeds, wildflower mixes, some cool shade plants. How is getting the widest possible variety of plants to grow in my yard a design project? what does it signal? Does it fulfill a "design for the welfare of all life" angle!?

                          How do I build day to day and week to week? Am I worried about that too much right now? If I go back in and add missing Items, turn more things into questions, do a better job of linking and cross linking and getting rid of redundancies and unused tags... how does that help the experience? what happens when you find this online? how can this take over for the sustainabilitist? is the whole thing the replacement, or just a part... what should live as bjornpaedia and what is the sustainabilitist? how do I export this without all the tiddler controls so its just pages/links!?

                          When do I start streaming/recording doing this stuff!!??

                          How does a self-created "encyclopedia" help with sustainability? how can it be added to by others? do I need another tool, another repo, can my own ramblings AND a climate design encyclopedia live together?

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                          6th July 2021 at 8:17am
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                          Written from
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                          What is a Pragmatic Utopian? And why do I like that phrase so much?

                          Pragmatic: relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic (from MW)

                          It can also mean that you follow the philosophical concept Pragmatism

                          Utopian: having impossibly ideal conditions especially of social organization; proposing or advocating impractically ideal social and political schemes (from MW). This version of Utopia comes from Sir Thomas More and his book, Utopia (1516)

                          How to you combine those two things? and yeah, why am I so into that phrase.

                          Bjarke Ingels uses it frequently to describe many of the BIG projects.

                          "There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow." —Victor Hugo

                          Murray Bookchin had a great speech sort of on this too: Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do

                          so if utopian ideas are IDEALISTIC and probably unrealizable (at lesat in the present); and pragmatics is that you are decidedly NOT IDEALISTIC but instead are dealing with immediate practicalities ... how do these fit together? Can you IDEALISTICALLY work within the PRACTICAL? Are there matter of fact, practical, everyday things that are better solved with fantastical idealistic solutions instead of the status quo ones??? or more importantly, can we use the everyday status quo content and tools of the present to instead create idealistic tomorrows!!??

                          Permaculture farming in the city? is that a gesture that is pragmatically utopian? the plastic recycling machinery where anyone in a neighborhood can recycle their own plastics to make whatever simple things they need? Are even ideas like Kintsugi one version of this? An ideal of maintenance over time; and practical fixing in the present with materials that point towards this other possible tomorrow? Using F/LOSS is an example of this? many of the tools are pragmatic; they do one thing, and focus on doing it simply or quickly over looking good or being easy to figure out (this is a gross generalization that isn't really true, should probably omit) – but they are part of an ecosystem that values FREEDOM over all else; that is utopian for sure – pragmatic utopian.

                          So, why am I interested in this? becuase! this is what "design" must become – pragmatics, solving real issues of RIGHT NOW with whatever resources are available. But, it can't just solve moderno techno capitalist problems, it can't just get people onto some western neo-colonial track, we need to solve problems AND provide alternative visions of tomorrow – Design that has IDEALS and PRACTICAL application. Practically applied ideals. Ideals applied with practical tools and approaches?

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                          6th July 2021 at 4:19pm
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                          My shoe repairs already wore out. oops. So that wasn't the right way to fix something. Is that why people don't bother fixing things? entropy is always faster, better, stronger?

                          Biking is the ultimate city transport. What do people have against biking!? Roads aren't just for cars; roads pre-date cars

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                          7th July 2021 at 11:40pm
                          Word Count: 367
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                          When will I ever have time to read books again???

                          When will I ever have time to bake bread again??? what about all our other cooking and fermenting projects?

                          Why is having this carefully planned yard so important? why bother? does it show anyone another way forward? does it DO anything? Is there a way to make it do more!? Is it about the welfare of ALL the OTHER LIFE around here? not mine or my neighbors, but the cardinal's or the dobson fly's?

                          Why is this such a struggle?

                          What are these characters I play? the sustainabilitist? the libre designer? how do I embody them more? how do I act more unselfconciously? how do I act!? I mean act as in actually go out and do something. I have "done something" man, in, years? I talk a lot about doing things, I tell other people to do things? I plan vaguely about doing things... but nothing really gets done!?

                          I don't even know what day it is anymore.

                          What is my Traditional Ecological Knowledge – who has some in Balitmore!? what can I learn, listen to, participate in. Not to "improve" myself but to better help others? to better serve others? to better help the local biome?

                          Piedmont Forest

                          How does my yard help a hellbender salamander? how does it help a heron? how does it help the peregrine falcons up the road? how does it help the neighborhood bunnies? how does it help the neighbors?

                          Is this part of the issue – if you ask "how does what I am doing help X" and "X" isn't "make me more money" in some shape or form, then no wonder it seems weird to do ????????

                          what do I mean here, I mean... well, like whats the cheapest, simplest way to update this house. None of the things I am trying to do really fall into that. Whtas the best return on investment, again probably not the things I am hoping to do... Our yard projects don't fall into this, theyre probably a detriment.

                          How does one find tax breaks or grants or anything else for the kinds of things we are trying to do!?

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                            9th July 2021 at 12:05pm
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                            Things to try to flesh out!?

                            So, okay, so I spend a few days coming up with lists like this, but then what? when can I actually get around to WRITING something about any of this stuff? to explaining any of it? what is the goal? and where is the time and energy?

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                            9th July 2021 at 2:59am
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                            Well, I think I might have lost my earlier post for today, woops.

                            Gotta get ready to go.

                            Sto pdoing things you don't want to do – not in like an oh, this is boring I don't want to do it, but I mean projects not really directly in the service of what you want to sustain.

                            Find more time to work on this, make connections, create some essays for sending out into the world.

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                            10th July 2021 at 12:56am
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                            We are packed. I am tired. There are never enough hours to do everything. Do I just have too many things I want to do? How can I be better at not "wasting" time – meaning doing things that are of no benefit to myself!?

                            Tomorrow we drive to Maine. How am I planning to offset this trip? Can I take trips anymore if I want to do something about climte change? How can I better use the time and energy? how can we do something more with our yard and house and lives?

                            It was way easier to design a poster everyday than to try and write something personally useful everyday.

                            So, if I start collecting these ideas, what does one do with them? do I need something to do? why can't I just accept getting them down, getting things clarified for myself, letting it direct me better? How can this be all things: journal and personal therapy and knowledge exploration and idea working out space and essay generator!? and thats just what it is. If it is seen or not, if I do smoething or not, the things are here, theyre down, theyre connected!

                            In 6 hours we go to maine. Not tomorrow.

                            What is in Maine? time? space? calm? peace? a change? what am I seeking that I hope to find there we're unable to find or do here?

                            Go to bed.

                            That needs to be my new mantra above all else. Go to bed. Not more writing, more sustainabilitizing, but more sleeping.

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                              12th July 2021 at 1:20pm
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                              ?, CT, Our car on CT state highway 15 heading north

                              how to get rid of automobiles? What is the point of "personal" mobility? why should something like a car be an individually owned conveyance? why can't we see how useful collectively owning a fleet of robot cars could be? why not no cars? What is the advantage of a car? why cars? who benefits from me owning a car? how might we maximize that benefit to more people? does this network of roads do aything useful? do more roads make us better as a people or worse? what if you couldn't just hopin your car and drive whereeer you wanted? what would you do then?

                              Why am I so against cars these days? I used to like cars so much.

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                                12th July 2021 at 1:20pm
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                                Driving is horrible.

                                There are some new stats from Argonne National Lab re: electric cars, battery making resources, carbon footprints, and what electric grid you use to charge your EV with… look this up… car and driver did some analysis on this, reuters, businessweek maybe… link to all that stuff and read up more on it!?

                                IS this old car I'm driving okay? like its got okay gas mileage, its about to die, maybe, but the engine runs great... should we just get a rav fucking 4 prime? I just want our silly mini mini van as an electric vehicle with tiny gas generator...

                                Hmmm.

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                                14th July 2021 at 11:26pm
                                Word Count: 146
                                EAD EssayADay
                                Written from
                                Southwest Harbor, Maine, My Mother's living room

                                What is the goal? who is the audience? who can I help? why do I want to do these things? Why am I so easily distracted? who am I helping with all this collecting and "writing"? ✍️

                                How do I make things better for myself? for my family? for my neighborhood? for my city? for my community? for my state? for my watershed? for my country? for my continent? for my tectonic plate? for my planet?

                                How to design when you aren't designing objects, when you aren't skinning surfaces? but when design is about behavior and action? The John Thackara quote about designers making posters instead of taking actual action comes to mind here...

                                How is design what you do, how you live, who you help; not objects you make? how to I move my web designing away from web designing and to something else?

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                                  15th July 2021 at 11:00pm
                                  Word Count: 154
                                  EAD EssayADay
                                  Written from
                                  Southwest Harbor, Maine, Living Room

                                  its so late. there are no good beds to sleep on here. I've not really done anything for a week. it is oddly refreshing and easy. I wish I was getting some reading done. but other than that. I could really not care less about not doing work...

                                  So then how to transition? how to make money but not be a designer or professor and do the things I want and think are important!?

                                  what is the way to get started on the plastic making project? what is the way to get started on the net zero house graphics project? what is the way to get started on any other home yard/energy efficiency projects? What's the point of all of this anyway?

                                  What can I build with nothing? what can I do with no extra resources? How can it all be powered with renewables? how does any new work offset itself?

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                                  16th July 2021 at 10:09pm
                                  Word Count: 445
                                  EAD EssayADay
                                  Prompt
                                  PPM
                                  417.39 ppm
                                  Written from
                                  Southwest Harbor, Maine, An Uncomfortable Leather Couch

                                  I want to be better? but what does this mean? how does one do this?

                                  So, what is a sustainabilitist?. I claim that a sustainabilitist is someone that embraces "Post-environmentalism" … see: The Sustainabilitist Manifesto

                                  And so then this kind of person, this sustainabilitist, then somehow is able to correctly value social, environmental, and economic things in more holistic, interlinked, everything-is-connected, type ways.

                                  A designer as sustainabilitist then designs for ALL these things together... There has to be some awareness for the market... some for society... some for nature.

                                  The whole problem with this is that it envisions the systems as working the way they do now, but made better, made more holistic. It doesn't perhaps envision a different way, a different set of values completely. Instead of high tech and high value and high ROI economically, what if its just getting by – and getting by with a way more socialist or communist view point for what "ownership" means? for what "production" means?

                                  A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

                                  R. Buckminster Fuller

                                  This is perhaps what a sustianabilitist must be too. Part everything. A real mutli-disciplinarian. A renaissance person. How do you understand how to collaborate with people; empathize; communicate; make; weld; calculate; all at high level and together? How do you see all the connections? how do you understand all the complex webs? Can any 1 person do this anymore? does everyone have to not only be a renaissance person, but also be an expert in something and connect with other multi-disciplinarians and experts? everything needs dynamic, resilient, adaptable, on the fly teams made up of whomever is best and available at that time? take the model of Superfriendly and turn it on every situation and problem? Where does large bureaucracy and government fit here?

                                  Is it important to be a designer as sustainabilitsit, or just to be a sustainabilitist. Naturally some design will be required. But if you focuse on the sustainability things and not the design... does that limit one? does that free one? the design stuff is mostly pretty easy actually. If you can see the real problems in the right way, then you can much more correclty find and forumulate the right solutions. if you are just looking at solutions... you jsust keep having what we have. this works for some popel? its probably food for llbean. But its not great for everyone...

                                  I digress.

                                  What the F is up with bike lanes???

                                  What is a Sustainabilitist?

                                  I don't know. But I still want to get it figured out.

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                                  17th July 2021 at 10:43pm
                                  Word Count: 73
                                  EAD EssayADay
                                  Written from
                                  Southwest Harbor, Maine, A Fluffy rug on the living room floor

                                  how to focus? how to set goals? what are my goals? what is the point of all of this? I just wanted to be better? thats not really a goal? better at what? designing? teaching? parenting? all of the above? I maybe can't pick all of those things – which would improve things the most?

                                  Goals.

                                  1. Sleep more.
                                  2. Perfect less, do more.
                                  3. Get things done; stop delaying!?
                                  4. I need some real, serious goals?

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                                    19th July 2021 at 2:09pm
                                    Word Count: 80
                                    EAD EssayADay
                                    Prompt
                                    Written from
                                    Between The NH state line and Dannsbury CT, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, & Connecticut, the passenger seat of my car driving south on I95

                                    So, maybe a way to provide some more structure to this site is to try and actually write bits and pieces of an essay? can I pick apart what I did for my talk at University of Nebraska? how about explaining the projects that I explained to them? what else might be good...

                                    What have I already written about I can try to update? What can I recombine or revise? How much have my thougts changed? improved? become more complex?

                                    020210721012435 Ideas

                                    21st July 2021 at 1:39am
                                    Word Count: 150
                                    EAD EssayADay
                                    Written from
                                    Baltimore, Maryland, Dining Table

                                    Back home.

                                    We went to a really cool zoo.

                                    We drove a lot.

                                    I felt like a hypocrite again

                                    Why am I such a judgemental asshole?

                                    Did bezos really need to ride in that space capsule?

                                    What is next?

                                    How to actually get working on the precious plastics stuff?

                                    Call attenborough.

                                    who else would benefit from that idea?

                                    How can doing a "will it shred" plastic day teach people about the different kinds of plastics and the viability of each as a material?

                                    Can every thing I want to do be turned into a public facing teaching opportunity? how can we bypass the traditional formal education systems and get more people more involved with more things and more knowledge?

                                    who needs to learn things? what do we need to learn? are any of "my things" good "for everyone" kinds of knowledge!?

                                    What do I need to learn and from whom?

                                    020210721125059 Ideas

                                    21st July 2021 at 1:31pm
                                    Word Count: 79
                                    EAD EssayADay
                                    Written from
                                    Baltimore, Maryland, Office at MICA, Brown Center

                                    Where are things going? What is "enough"? What should I write? who should I write for? is it myself? do I need to be clever? why do I feel that need? Can I just be clear?

                                    What is a good short term writing goal? some sort of designed/illsutrated zine ala Tony Venne's MFA book? > The Designer as Sustainabilitist (A Table of Contents)

                                    What else?! what is different or special or strange or new or more? or less?

                                    020210722003512 Ideas

                                    22nd July 2021 at 12:35am
                                    Word Count: 27
                                    EAD EssayADay
                                    Written from
                                    Baltimore, Maryland,

                                    I am adding things, are they useful? what is the goal of this, how much to collect? how to organize? how to help someone access this all?

                                    020210726012202 Ideas

                                    26th July 2021 at 1:22am
                                    Word Count: 14
                                    EAD EssayADay
                                    Written from
                                    Baltimore, Maryland,

                                    I started, with Chris Attenborough, to work on a Precious Plastics oven today! hurray.

                                    020210726094800 Ideas

                                    26th July 2021 at 9:59am
                                    Word Count: 33
                                    EAD EssayADay
                                    Written from
                                    Baltimore, Maryland, My MICA Office, Brown Center

                                    What am I doing?

                                    • Why do I have so many computers?
                                    • Why do we need so many streaming services?
                                    • Why even watch TV?
                                    • How can I sleep more?
                                    • How can I do less?

                                    020210728002900 Ideas

                                    28th July 2021 at 12:41am
                                    Word Count: 222
                                    EAD EssayADay
                                    Written from
                                    Baltimore, Maryland, Dining Table
                                    • Graphic Design is not problem solving, it is a detective case
                                    • How do we open all these found problems?
                                    • Is sustainability important or is open source important?
                                      • how to do both!?
                                    • how to be less cynical? how to find and enjoy the clarity? how to acknowledge the benefit I might have out in the world?
                                    • where and how can you teach an "other" kind of design? (and what does "other" mean here?)
                                    • is technical mastery important?
                                    • Work on the end result and the end result creates the stream?
                                      • witness! how to open up our processes?
                                      • this is all a performance
                                    • Ritual
                                      • how to teach invented rituals so others can perform them themselves?
                                    • what other physical manifestations are there?
                                    • NFT > but for physical copies?
                                    • This is all a performance
                                      • how does that work as a podcast or live stream or anything else?
                                    • treat everyone as an equal > no condescension > I know nothing!
                                    • conversations that all parties can learn from
                                    • what is your relationship to graphic design and is it what it should be?
                                    • this is meant to be a situation where we are all intellectually equal
                                    • broadcast out > but have some way to integrate things back in?
                                    • when you are confronted with a lot of questions how do you react?
                                    • what do you do when you don't have answers?
                                    • Aesthetics that convince

                                    020210731142935 Ideas

                                    31st July 2021 at 2:30pm
                                    Word Count: 32
                                    EAD EssayADay
                                    Written from
                                    Baltimore, Maryland, Dining Table

                                    I need to build a bamboo trellis. I need to melt plastic.

                                    What is happening? how have these two months been useful? at all? what have I collected that is of worth?

                                    020210800 August

                                    30th September 2021 at 1:58am
                                    Word Count: 99
                                    Month

                                    020210802124345 Ideas

                                    2nd August 2021 at 12:44pm
                                    Word Count: 16
                                    Climate Designers EAD EssayADay
                                    Written from
                                    Baltimore, Maryland,

                                    how to help others update their courses? make all design courses "climate design" courses?

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                                      2nd August 2021 at 1:18pm
                                      Word Count: 23
                                      EAD EssayADay
                                      Written from
                                      Baltimore, Maryland,

                                      the ISS is passing over my phone's GPS coordinates right now. My phone alerts me whenever this happens. Fascinating. Thank you astronauts.

                                      020210803000151 Ideas

                                      3rd August 2021 at 12:02am
                                      Word Count: 10
                                      EAD EssayADay
                                      Written from
                                      Baltimore, Maryland,

                                      Just go to bed dude, don't be an idiot.

                                      020210803162926 Ideas

                                      3rd August 2021 at 4:29pm
                                      Word Count: 4
                                      EAD EssayADay
                                      Prompt
                                      Written from
                                      Baltimore, Maryland,

                                      How does the idea of the metaverse work within a framework of sustainability? within the framework of the welfare of all life?

                                      020210806155535 Ideas

                                      7th August 2021 at 11:26pm
                                      Word Count: 76
                                      EAD EssayADay
                                      Written from
                                      Baltimore, Maryland,

                                      What to write about today?

                                      How can I help my colleagues with their class projects? how to climify any design project or course or prompt? Are there easy readings that could be added to anything? how about concepts or tools or ideas?

                                      How does Reuse fit into your project our course? How might Carbon Dioxide be discussed or pictured? Can you use Project Drawdown as content for something? How about the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

                                      020210807233005 Ideas

                                      7th August 2021 at 11:51pm
                                      Word Count: 128
                                      EAD EssayADay
                                      Prompt
                                      PPM
                                      415.19 ppm
                                      Written from
                                      Baltimore, Maryland, The Living Room Couch

                                      What are we writing about today?

                                      What about graphic designing can be made more sustainable? how can one use ideas like biomimicry for print design?

                                      If, Sustainable Graphic Design Does Not Exist, then what can be done?

                                      So, by this I mean, well, several things. It doesn't exist because nothing we do with our current systems are sustainable; it doesn't exist because it needs to be epehmeral, it doesn't exist because it comes together to do somethi communicating and then disappears or goes back to its raw materials afterward; it doesn't exist because its just a part of nature, you can just take advantage of things already out in the world and you don't need to make new things? it doesn't exist... ?

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                                      8th August 2021 at 10:24pm
                                      Word Count: 442
                                      EAD EssayADay
                                      Prompt
                                      PPM
                                      415.03 ppm
                                      Written from
                                      Baltimore, Maryland, The couch...

                                      I have no plans, no real goals whats the point?

                                      What am I actually doing or working on?

                                      Why this series of prompts? what am I hoping to sustain with them? why do I just feel more and more spent and never better or more likely to succeed or anything else

                                      So, How to help my colleagues and myself with this climate change stuff?

                                      • ideas for projects
                                        • This could mean NEW projects
                                        • but it could also mean just tweaks to existing projects.

                                      Tweaks to Existing Projects

                                      So if you are just gonna change what you have; update what you are used to, where do you start? okay, well, does it depend on the kind of projects? the kind of class? A type class, is there someway to add the evaluation of how ink dense a font is when printed? compare default widths – like given this line length in inches or something, how many characters fit? or given this line length in characters, how might one pick a font that conserves horizontal space? one that allows for slightly tighter line spacing so as to save vertical height? either fit more legibly on a page, or fit the same on a smaller page? how to compare that usefully? Are there energy questions one can ask about fonts? like you already have these on your computer, why not just use them? or perhaps digitally, this font has fewer weights and fewer characters, so while it might not be quite as useful, it does require less energy to install run and use? in terms of design for the welfare of all life how does what typeface you typeset something in fit here? What's the butterfly effect of Helvetica on a Greenland shark?

                                      Another thing a design class might do is a specific KIND of project, like an event poster, or a conference booklet, or a basic storefront website, or maybe an app design!? How might content from or for something climate change related? Obviously a collection of things like the UN Sustainable Development Goals or Project Drawdown's solutions make for good designs – an app for browsing them? a poster of the key takeaways? a publication with the bullet points highlighted and explained? Alternately, those could be food for something else – like have a student pick one of them and do further research on the subject, and then design anything else you were planning on having them design anyway... but the goal or solution are the subsequent lens through which to examine the design prompt. Like, how does a book design improve access to education? how is an identity also a solution for all hunger?

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                                        9th August 2021 at 1:13pm
                                        Word Count: 6
                                        EAD EssayADay
                                        Written from
                                        Baltimore, Maryland,

                                        Why am I always so stuck?

                                        020210809171301 Ideas

                                        9th August 2021 at 5:14pm
                                        Word Count: 54
                                        EAD EssayADay
                                        Written from
                                        Baltimore, Maryland,

                                        How can I document meaningful conversations better? the answer can't just be recording them, because, well, spontaneity and self consciousness and whatever else are made much more problematic with recording of things... but, how do I keep a hold of useful things I hear or say in more reference-able, actionable, helpful ways?

                                        020210810234638 Ideas

                                        10th August 2021 at 11:54pm
                                        Word Count: 24
                                        EAD EssayADay
                                        Written from
                                        Baltimore, Maryland,

                                        Why does design want to be sustainable anyway? why is it not sustainable in the first place?

                                        why can't I do anything anymore.

                                        020210814153027 Ideas

                                        14th August 2021 at 3:30pm
                                        Word Count: 5
                                        EAD EssayADay
                                        Written from
                                        Baltimore, Maryland,

                                        I have no more ideas.

                                        020210814231726 Ideas

                                        14th August 2021 at 11:18pm
                                        Word Count: 93
                                        EAD EssayADay
                                        Written from
                                        Baltimore, Maryland,

                                        How am I going to do all the things I want to do? How do I make my house carbon negative? how do I renovate my basement and kitchen and install minisplits and go solar and whatever else? How do I even finish my yard and playspace projects!? those are things that should take just a few days at best...

                                        Okay, so we need to save money. We need to save time. We need to stop goofing around. we need to stop watching shows??? How do I not waste time during the day?

                                        020210819000246 Ideas

                                        19th August 2021 at 12:09am
                                        Word Count: 141
                                        EAD EssayADay
                                        Prompt
                                        Listing things to do and think about and accomplish?
                                        Written from
                                        Baltimore, Maryland, Dining Table

                                        What things to do?

                                        Can I start live streaming more?

                                        How to get to the writing! what the fuck is wrong with me?

                                        Okay, so for today, I felt like I had some cool ideas... now... maybe not.

                                        can I help fellow faculty at MICA climify their courses? send that to the slack tomorrow. Also, just touch base with everyone you think you have ever had an interesting conversation with... what could be the harm? What are you trying to say about sustainability and design?

                                        find a business & life coach? find a therapist? go to the doctor? do I need some mood stabilizers? do I have ADHD?

                                        Look into Paul Virilio: he was mentioned in two different things I read today. Both referenced the same quote: When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck

                                        020210820001749 Ideas

                                        20th August 2021 at 12:19am
                                        Word Count: 89
                                        EAD EssayADay
                                        Written from
                                        Baltimore, Maryland,

                                        Seriously.

                                        What am I trying to do?

                                        How might we re-envision communication design as a decentralized, guided process that anyone can be helped to do for themselves and their contexts? how can the world at large be the client? how can "the natural" be part of all communication design outcomes? how does the welfare of all life factor into every decision?

                                        I don't have answers to these things, or if I do, I don't understand how to do them in my own life, my own practice…

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                                          20th August 2021 at 12:23am
                                          Word Count: 161
                                          EAD EssayADay
                                          Prompt
                                          Written from
                                          Baltimore, Maryland,

                                          okay: It should be possible to bicycle anywhere

                                          if I really think that, then what am I doing to help that be the way things are?

                                          who should I talk too? Graham Coreil-Allen? Bikemore?

                                          What other groups, orgs, people, institutions, departments, etc. overlap in this cause?

                                          IS that an opportunity for communication design? helping show these overlaps? helping make these connections? the designer as connector? is that a good outomce of a sabbaticcal, that one has just talked to a lot of people and made connections? what is the "work" that comes out of that then? is it that there are just inlets into classrooms? opportunities for design to be accessed by those that may need it? not as design savior, but as collaborator? not to BRING in design, but to be a colleague, to be a designer with them, for them? do I know how to do this? how do you learn these alternative ways of thinking, acting, designing?

                                          020210820100303 Ideas

                                          20th August 2021 at 10:10am
                                          Word Count: 148
                                          EAD EssayADay
                                          Prompt
                                          Written from
                                          Baltimore, Maryland,

                                          design for the welfare of all life

                                          Spaceship Earth

                                          BauErden

                                          R. Buckminster Fuller referred to our planet as Spaceship Earth. We are all here together hurtling through space without a resupply mission to help us. How can we design with this in mind? How does it change what we're doing? A "how might we" question is a bit different when the "we" is all of spaceship earth no?

                                          • Spaceship earth centered design?
                                          • Earth centered design?
                                          • planet centered design?
                                          • The Welfare of All Life Centered Design?
                                          • Non-human centered design?

                                          Human centered design loves the how might we question.

                                          What are the better questions to kick off planet centered designs? What does this destroy? Should we make this at all? Does this make Spaceship earth easier to live on or worse? what does this feed? How does the waste of this idea compost into future posibitliies? Waste = Food.

                                          020210820140510 Ideas

                                          20th August 2021 at 2:12pm
                                          Word Count: 80
                                          EAD EssayADay
                                          Written from
                                          Baltimore, Maryland,

                                          For MICA

                                          • Can we grow trees inside the buildings?
                                          • Can Brown Center become a giant greenhouse? the hanging gardens of Baltimore?
                                          • What opportunities are there on campus for CLASSROOMS to merge with the GROUNDS — how does the physical earth the school sits on reconnect with the class structures — more importantly, we are part of the local watershed, how do we make more courses integrated into the local watershed!?
                                          • Where do the boundaries of the school end? Vertically? horizontally? existentially? socially?

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                                            31st August 2021 at 4:57pm
                                            Word Count: 163
                                            EAD EssayADay
                                            Written from
                                            Baltimore, Maryland,

                                            The climate crisis is simple: There are too many greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We put them into the atmosphere; we must get them out.

                                            So, all we need to do is get the greenhouse gases back into physically sequestered forms right? Simple.

                                            But that's why its also hard. There is no correct 1 way to do this. We also need to do this in ways that don't further degrade or destroy ecosystems, social structures, etc. We need to do it in ways that help strengthen natural and social systems. Can we do it with LESS reliance on technical systems rather than more!? Can we do it with MANY small solutions instead of just a few gargantuan ones?

                                            And WTF does graphic design do about this?

                                            What ways to communicate and signify this are there that we haven't tried already? what better ways are there to disseminate this information? Is that the important part? do people care about the information?

                                            020210820214331 Ideas

                                            20th August 2021 at 9:53pm
                                            Word Count: 6
                                            EAD EssayADay
                                            Written from
                                            Baltimore, Maryland,

                                            What am I trying to do?

                                            020210821223433 Ideas

                                            21st August 2021 at 10:34pm
                                            Word Count: 14
                                            EAD EssayADay
                                            Written from
                                            Baltimore, Maryland,

                                            What can I do to help a place like seaborne?

                                            https://www.seaborne.nyc/

                                            020210823150453 Ideas

                                            23rd August 2021 at 3:38pm
                                            Word Count: 112
                                            EAD EssayADay
                                            Prompt
                                            Written from
                                            Baltimore, Maryland, Office at MICA

                                            Okay, had a meeting with Impakter today. What can I come up with to write that would be good to share? a good fit for that site???

                                            Seems like this is a good way to make some connections, be involved in some more important stuff? So what would be good to write there from my angles? Open source as part of sustainable design? deisgner as detective to find problems, but then turn them over to the "correct" people for solving them? Designer as the guide to help OTHER's discover and solve their own needs? just rethinking and showing alternative futures we can point society towards instead of where we're heading.

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                                              020210823164540 Ideas

                                              29th August 2021 at 11:30pm
                                              Word Count: 99
                                              EAD EssayADay
                                              Written from
                                              Baltimore, Maryland,

                                              For something like Learning Design for Sustainability, Scott Boylston doesn't actually "know more" than me — what's my problem; why can't I figure out how to do something with this knowledge? Classes? books? Projects? what is holding me back, what is keeping me from DOING. Am I afraid that I don't actually know what I am talking about? how does one get over that fear? how do I really learn or prove to myself that I've learned what I need to know then?

                                              This isn't a new problem, this has ALWAYS been my problem!?

                                              020210824232458 Ideas

                                              29th August 2021 at 11:29pm
                                              Word Count: 57
                                              EAD EssayADay Prompt
                                              Written from
                                              Baltimore, Maryland,

                                              Am I any closer to doing something useful or meaningful? when is the day to start performing everything? live streaming any "libre" thing? how about all this goofy tiddlywiki stuff? building a home brew website? how about considering the footprint of said site?

                                              how does this tiddlywiki become a useful piece of the web? my practice? pedagogy?

                                              020210827012159 Ideas

                                              29th August 2021 at 11:28pm
                                              Word Count: 120
                                              EAD EssayADay
                                              Written from
                                              Baltimore, Maryland,

                                              Okay, I gotta get back to the heart of this: the writing. Yeah, I need to compile notes and references so I make them correctly, yes I need to keep reading and listening and taking notes or whatever. But I NEED TO WRITE down my thoughts!

                                              why is sustainabiltiy important? why is graphic design a way to do something about it? how if GD useful? why do aesthetics and sustainbility matter?

                                              so, maybe I go back through some of my WDSGDLL ideas and really flesh them out? that will for sure lead me to new things, but already I've spent a lot of time and energy thinking there, so I should be able to get pretty far pretty fast.

                                              020210827012358 Ideas

                                              27th August 2021 at 1:24am
                                              Word Count: 18
                                              EAD EssayADay
                                              Written from
                                              Baltimore, Maryland,

                                              020210827225526 Ideas

                                              29th August 2021 at 11:27pm
                                              Word Count: 69
                                              EAD EssayADay
                                              Written from
                                              Baltimore, Maryland,

                                              This — This meaning SUSTAINABILITY; meaning CLIMATE CHANGE — is important and popular because it has to be.

                                              How do I make this — what this do I mean here though!?? — a video? a podcast? don't worry about it being important or followed, its temporary, or at least, that's the proposal – this is for now; for the present, for the near future; it will probably end by fall of 2022...

                                              020210831165532 Ideas

                                              31st August 2021 at 4:56pm
                                              Word Count: 30
                                              EAD EssayADay
                                              Written from
                                              Baltimore, Maryland,

                                              What am I trying to do today?

                                              Can I get Impakter some things??? What to write for Impakter?

                                              What do I already have on here I can recombobulate for them???

                                              020210900 September

                                              30th September 2021 at 1:58am
                                              Word Count: 56
                                              Month

                                              Month four of the idea. September was a pretty low output month, working on some other projects, and dealing with a general depression/malaise/lost feeling...

                                              020210906134034 TIGDT

                                              6th September 2021 at 4:11pm
                                              Word Count: 66
                                              Things I Got Done Today
                                              • Reattached Stair Hand Rail
                                              • Emailed about potential guest visits?
                                                • Emailed Aggie
                                                • Emailed Andrew
                                                • Emailed Richard
                                              • Made some lists for the rest of the week
                                              • Emailed Eddie
                                              • Read a chapter of Future Ethics
                                              • Responded to some Reedsy Requests
                                                • Dog book
                                                • garlic book
                                              • Added word count widget to The Sustainabilitist Tiddly Wiki from https://ooktech.com/TiddlyWiki/WordCount/
                                              • found some interesting new Tony Fry lectures to listen to

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                                                020210911020038 Ideas

                                                30th September 2021 at 2:00am
                                                Word Count: 16
                                                EAD EssayADay
                                                Written from
                                                Baltimore, Maryland,

                                                020210911

                                                I don't make my work for myself, I make it for humanity — Agnes Denes

                                                020210914020008 Ideas

                                                30th September 2021 at 2:00am
                                                Word Count: 83
                                                EAD EssayADay
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                                                Okay, this day is terrible already.

                                                https://dirty-furniture.com/

                                                Dirty furniture had a cool idea – here are these themes, we'll do just 6 issues to cover these themes, here's a rolling release schedule that as we get to each one it will be published, sort of inbetween magazine, journal, etc. Can I do this over the next year? I'm already losing time and options...

                                                Don't do negative speak.

                                                • You think to much.
                                                • Do more.
                                                • Think in circles less.

                                                020210924002527 Ideas

                                                24th September 2021 at 12:26am
                                                Word Count: 29
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                                                Where were we?

                                                What have I been doing?

                                                Why do I keep screwing up the same ways over and over again?

                                                Why don't I learn from my mistakes?

                                                020210924002614 Ideas

                                                24th September 2021 at 12:27am
                                                Word Count: 15
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                                                Lectures to write and pitch:

                                                Anything else?

                                                020210924002918 Ideas

                                                30th September 2021 at 1:33am
                                                Word Count: 64
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                                                020210927015925 Ideas

                                                30th September 2021 at 1:59am
                                                Word Count: 56
                                                EAD EssayADay
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                                                Interface for starting new design projects?

                                                • - do you just want a space to put down ideas?
                                                • - are you writing or drawing or both?
                                                • - is this a book?
                                                • - do you know how many pages it will be yet?
                                                • - have you already picked out body copy?
                                                • - Is there a font you already know you are going to use?

                                                020211000 October

                                                20th October 2021 at 11:48pm
                                                Word Count: 121
                                                Month

                                                Month five of the idea. September was a pretty low output month, and now its looking like October will be/is too... working on some other projects, and dealing with a general depression/malaise/lost feeling... trying to do some house stuff, working on up to date HVAC that should use WAY less energy long term AND be better heating/coiking wise. Also hoping to insulate the attic in a serious way. otherwise... watched too many shows on netflix, etc. and time just disappeared. Here's to getting back to things.

                                                020211019 Notes on Lisa Graumlich Interview

                                                20th October 2021 at 1:36pm
                                                Word Count: 578
                                                020211019 Notes on Unit 1: Setting the Stage Climate Solutions 101 Unit 1: Setting the Stage

                                                Race & Privilege in the Climate Movement

                                                Lisa Graumlich

                                                Climate impacts were always "far away" but now they're tomorrow, or NOW!

                                                We get closer and closer to the horizon. It is astounding to LIVE in it now...

                                                Abstract problems are REAL now.

                                                Far off problems are now HERE

                                                divisiveness of the conversation is still better than no conversation at all.

                                                This affects the environment but also really our health, physically and mentally, etc.

                                                climate depression

                                                in just a few generations we've gone from seeing the planet as a thing that governs itself and create a wonderful habitat for humanity to a sobering perspective that we are actually driving the planet, and we can control the health of the planet – we're not just passengers on spaceship earth, but we're driving — are we going to help, are we going to transform how we participate with the planet?

                                                images of earth from space.

                                                how to actually GET this, that we might be in charge, and how do we learn to drive this planet.

                                                There is a huge interest in this because of ocean acidification, not just the climate changing... (but they are all linked together... so f.)

                                                this is a food and subsistence issue (≈12:00)

                                                CO2 is an agent of warming in the atmosphere – but dissolved in water it is an acidifier

                                                the things we depend on most of all we seem to wreck the most.

                                                get out of the academic, what are the solutions!?

                                                most of the solutions have co-benefits.

                                                Lakelia Jenkins: "A solution is only a solution if people use them"

                                                You're not going to come up with solutions sitting in your office on a university campus, you need to be in conversation, in dialog, with people making decisions in the now...

                                                There are going to be disparities in how people are affected, so what are solutions that work for ANYONE, not just people within a certain income bracket or zip code...

                                                Science is part of it, but its just a part of it...

                                                Solutions that don't fit the culture and context of the moment, or of the people that need to use the solutions are just theoretical... you have to convince the people on the ground, whomever sets the thermastat or maintains the building services...

                                                solutions, just because you say they are solutions, doesn't make them solutions...

                                                Even well informed experts need some humility — we can't do it alone. This is cool, but... its also hard and scary

                                                we thought we understood what was going on in the world, but did we??? no.

                                                We're all a little less sure that we know how things work?

                                                pay more attention to the world around you.

                                                We have climate reckoning, racial reckoning and pandemic all hitting at once... and things are going to get weirder and harder from here, not immediately better. There are a lot of blind spots, so empathy and humility are required for moving forward. we have a lot to learn and need a lot of collaboration and listening to move forward.

                                                John Lewis faith over optimism.

                                                how to make this world one that we are proud to pass onto those after us. There will be setbacks, but we have to move forward with intelligence and courage. Let's not play odds, let us look at what is at stake.

                                                Rebecca Solnit: hope is a verb.

                                                Our ancestors sacrificed everything to provide a better future for future generations...

                                                020211019 Notes on Marshall Shepherd interview

                                                20th October 2021 at 1:36pm
                                                Word Count: 493
                                                020211019 Notes on Unit 1: Setting the Stage Climate Solutions 101 Unit 1: Setting the Stage

                                                Climate Justice is the Only Way

                                                Marshall Shepherd

                                                Weather channel?

                                                we should see climate change as a national security issue

                                                this isn't about plants, animals, its about things happening today — we can make it about short term economics

                                                It is about social issues; the people most affected are the poor, the marginalized...

                                                The people emitting the least are the people hit the hardest

                                                The future is screwed so we can be more comfortable today.

                                                We can't just talk about the physics, or the environmental aspects. Where can you hit on the "kitchen table" issues?

                                                It's difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it – upton sinclair?

                                                Easy to see, think about problems — what about the solutions?

                                                A world built upon renewable energy is really only a good thing.

                                                Composting IS a solution, Family planning IS a solution, you don't have to put solar panels on your roof to make a difference.

                                                We need all kinds of solutions, personal, public, private, city, state, country, international, faith based, community orgs, etc. ...

                                                Climate policy really happens on the local level. > where buses go, can you even put panels on your house, etc.

                                                Urban heat islands – reflective surfaces on pavement, urban greening, everything can be thought of as a part of this!

                                                effects are felt AT a place, so regardless of the "global" nature, we need to design at neighborhood and city level!!

                                                Engineer cities for thermal justice. !!??

                                                how to take excess urban heat and then DO something with it in the cities?

                                                If we think about the environment and social/racial justice and resilience, we can build better, so many opportunities are opened... we can do something about all these problems, improve them together not at the cost of each other.

                                                Scientists are usually cautious; they usually are conservative; so how can we empower the tech and the people innovating...

                                                We can't decouple climate and justice and health and anything else...

                                                Most people will be better off. There will be all kinds of new job and business opportunities. The only people that won't be are the wealthiest probably... wtf.

                                                All infrastructure and agriculture, etc. requires rethinking and remaking.

                                                The Climate-industrio revolution?

                                                "That's not economical" usually means: that is inconvenient for the existing powerful people... or, Entrenched Interests Hate Change (≈18:30)

                                                Stories for how things are better? where does the hope or energy to do this come from?

                                                The inertia of the old school can seem like a drag, but younger people understand this...

                                                Georgia Climate Project > could be good to look into?

                                                People resonate with stories; with nostalgia; not just dystopian future stories...

                                                The solutions side of things actually has a lot of common ground. It is more the political side, the large scale side is where some of the narrative issues lie...

                                                It makes sense to be more efficient. It makes sense to find more spaces for job creation.

                                                020211019 Notes on Unit 1: Setting the Stage

                                                20th October 2021 at 1:36pm
                                                Word Count: 323
                                                Climate Solutions 101 Unit 1: Setting the Stage

                                                with Jonathan Foley

                                                a moment of climate solutions.

                                                we've as humans been around for about 6 million years

                                                we have always LOCALLY affected our environment. But now we affect the whole planet at once.

                                                More than half of all people on earth live in cities

                                                everything is exponential growth...

                                                during the last 50 years more has changed than in the entire sum of human history? (how is this calculated or figured out? ≈1:48 min mark)

                                                This is an inflection point.

                                                A global economy linking soy bean fields to pigs in china is clearing the amazon of its rain forests...

                                                ≈30% of tropical forests have been lost.

                                                Agriculture is a global force. 35–40% of ALL land on earth is used for Agriculture!?!?!?!?! (again, where to find this stat to fact check?) (3:55)

                                                70% of H2O we "use" is used for irrigation

                                                These are obvious, seeable changes.

                                                Atmospheric changes are way more invisible, more subtle.

                                                Greenhouse gases are higher than at anytime of human history (not planetary history... but yeah, in terms of what humans have experienced its the warmest)

                                                "The great acceleration" – All since the 50s?

                                                Climate change is the biggest things - our use of energy, land, resources, etc. lead to this...

                                                If you are already having a hard time, its gonna be way harder.

                                                Burden is on future generations.

                                                Could be hopeless... BUT! it is not.

                                                We have gotten healthier. Children have dropped (5/woman before, down to 2.4 globally). More literate.

                                                We've improved A LOT of things for everyday people; now how can we do something for the planet?

                                                Build the future we want. We get to build the future we want. We have to choose a good future. Build a futre where people AND nature can thrive.

                                                Choose between the people we are, or the people we can be.

                                                What can we do to make it better for those after us? where are the potentials?

                                                Inbound

                                                  Outbound

                                                  020211020 Notes on Navin Ramankutty, PhD Interview

                                                  20th October 2021 at 11:43pm
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                                                  020211020 Notes on Unit 2: Stopping Climate Change Climate Solutions 101 Unit 2: Stopping Climate Change

                                                  How to Feed the World and Shrink our climate footprint

                                                  Navin Ramankutty

                                                  How does the food system need to change to help solve our environmental problems!?

                                                  land use

                                                  there isn't just one thing that causes climate change.

                                                  it is everything, driving, heating our buildings

                                                  none of it is deliberate

                                                  the solutions too are numerous, there isn't a single thing to do.

                                                  land use, energy, transportation...

                                                  social side of things are moving much faster. This is where we need to make a lot of ground.

                                                  cost of renewables is dropping

                                                  vegans and vegetarianism is increasing. this is all collectively positive.

                                                  food system is about 25% of carbon production

                                                  • stop deforestation for commodity food (soy and palm oil) most of this goes to industrial purposes or animal feed
                                                  • methane from livestock, global nitrogen cycle... ?
                                                  • Nitrous oxide emissions > from fertilizing! 1/2 of all nitrogen use is for fertilizing. So, permaculture, organics...

                                                  70% of deforestation is in 2 countries: brazil and indonesia. This is not for "food" this is for global commodities...

                                                  source crops from places that are not deforesting lands!? > can an individual do something about this?

                                                  NOX is a horrible GHG. (≈11:25) accounts for 3x the effects of GHG heating that flying does...

                                                  Nitrates are also bad in the water systems

                                                  managing nitrogen is also a climate problem.

                                                  "red sky in the morning" when we solve the climate, we have a nitrogen problem next!

                                                  cumulative impact of human society as a whole... solving the climate problem, the energy problem, whatever without thinking of our larger societal metabolism can have pitfalls!?

                                                  can we tie crop insurance to better environmental policy?

                                                  biological insurance?

                                                  diversification

                                                  Nathan Mueller nitrogen cycle study?

                                                  we always want to do new things, but we can also focus on doing everything we do more efficiently... maybe not as sexy, but potentially more immediate?

                                                  do we need to produce all this food!?

                                                  food waste and shifting diets are the most important things in the food systems to make some action...

                                                  improving efficiency in food system is important but its the third, least useful lever to pull.

                                                  1. reduce food waste
                                                  2. shift diet to less or no meat
                                                  3. use current land, etc. more efficiently

                                                  Rattan Lal

                                                  Degraded land takes in a lot of carbon at first, but then there is a sort of a ramp down, and then at a certain point there isn't more carbon sequestration into the soil?

                                                  30% of our emissions are really hard to abate – flying, trucking... some are easy, what are the easiest industrial and energy sources we can get rid of!?

                                                  we can't assure that things are sequestered permanently... trees, farm land, etc. are all transitory!?

                                                  tactic: just file lawsuits against new coal, etc. fossil power plants, after stalling them renewables end up cheaper and you don't have to worry!?

                                                  020211020 Notes on Unit 2: Stopping Climate Change

                                                  20th October 2021 at 11:17pm
                                                  Word Count: 382
                                                  Climate Solutions 101 Unit 2: Stopping Climate Change

                                                  with Jonathan Foley

                                                  Stopping climate change

                                                  Everything we do is connected back to climate change – water, food, health, security, etc. (Everything Is Connected)

                                                  if we don't fix climate change everythign in the future will be way harder.

                                                  GHG have been building up... they can either just keep building up, OR we can bend the curve, start "drawing down" ghgs — drawdown is the moment when the GHG levels start to decline.

                                                  How to get there as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

                                                  What are ghgs? heat trapping gases.

                                                  We have them on purpose, they are what make earth habitable.

                                                  Natural vs. Anthropogenic ghgs

                                                  simple physics: they let in solar radiation, but trap thermal radiation.

                                                  we have warmed the planet by 1 degree C - the last ice age, average temp was only -3 C where we are!? (≈ 6:00)

                                                  Where do the gases come from? (≈6:14)

                                                  GHGs are mainly coming from burning fossil fuels, CO2 from fossil fuels is 60% of GHGs... but we do some industrial chemistry, we burn forests, then we have a lot of methane from agriculture, and then industry... then there's a bit of Nitrous Oxide > too much fertilizer! and then Fluorinated gases... there is a chart (≈6:14–9:00)

                                                  Each gas works differently

                                                  Methane and flourinated gases trap more than CO2, but then methane breaks down to CO2 fast...

                                                  Source vs. Sink

                                                  Sources add, sinks remove.

                                                  If the sink is bigger than the source then our GHG levels will go down!!!

                                                  Pull the GHGs out of the atmosphere and put them somewhere else... Mainly Forests and Oceans.

                                                  Todays Atmostphere: ≈13:15

                                                  6 major sources of GHG pollution

                                                  we have only 2 major sources of natural sinks.

                                                  We need to bring the sources down, and then we need to support the natural sinks, as well as add some new kinds of sinks.

                                                  Three main principles for stopping climate change:

                                                  1. Reduce Sources: stop pollution before it even gets to the atmosphere
                                                  2. Support Sinks: look at the land and oceans, how can we support or augment their ability to absorb carbon
                                                  3. Improving Society: by building a more just, equitable society, we actually help reduce sources and create sinks... ?

                                                  Tagged with 020211020 Notes on Unit 2: Stopping Climate Change

                                                  020211020234853 Ideas

                                                  20th October 2021 at 11:49pm
                                                  Word Count: 45
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                                                  woah, okay. I'm at a loss ideas wise. however, I have started to go through some videos and online "courses" I had meant to do a long time ago. its been mildly rewarding. hopefully some new ideas and connections come out of all this.

                                                  020211021 Notes on Unit 3: Reducing Sources

                                                  21st October 2021 at 4:20pm
                                                  Word Count: 488
                                                  Climate Solutions 101 Unit 3: Reducing Sources

                                                  with Jonathan Foley

                                                  Reducing sources are the most important things to do

                                                  1. Electricity Production ≈ 25%
                                                  2. Food, Agriculture, Land use ≈ 24%
                                                  3. Industry ≈ 21%
                                                  4. Transportation ≈ 14%
                                                  5. Buildings ≈ 6%
                                                  6. Other, Misc ≈ 10%

                                                  Electricity: coal power is the worst...

                                                  food and electricty are equally important to do something about

                                                  buidlings CAUSE 6% but they then are interconnected with electricity grid, land use, transportation, etc.

                                                  The rest of "other" is everything else, but its yet more related to energy, gas leaks, etc.

                                                  5 things cause 90% of climate change GHGs

                                                  Each sector can be treated on its own...

                                                  Electricity: 25% of GHGs the production of energy from burning fossil fuels generates the GHGs

                                                  we send the electricity to buildings and industry

                                                  focus on efficiency and then shifting production to renewables, with this is the requirement of remaking the grid

                                                  Food

                                                  food miles isn't really important. the big issues are deforestation, methane from animals, NOx from too much fertilization

                                                  same, efficiencies are important, specifically FOOD WASTE. 1/3 of food is just thrown away. Food waste in developing places, the problem is on getting the food to people, in US, etc. its waste at the consumer level

                                                  meat based diets are worst

                                                  stop deforestation

                                                  improve agricultural practices on all the land we are already farming.

                                                  regenerative agriculture > can also be sinks?

                                                  food solutions:

                                                  Industry

                                                  high temperative, energy intensive processes – steel, cement, chemicals, plastics...

                                                  plastic is more of an environmental problem, less a climate problem

                                                  most importantly, we just need to swap CFCs and HFCs for better refridgerants.

                                                  how is waste a better resource? instead of just waste?

                                                  Transporation

                                                  10 of 14 is roads, 2% is flying... everything else — boats, trains, is 2%... so most importantly is reducing road mileage.

                                                  1 gallon of gas is 20lbs of CO2

                                                  Fuel efficiency... electric over gas... anything to reduce gas

                                                  even better, replace road transport with anything else that doesn't use fuel — bikes, walking, video conferencing, etc.

                                                  Buildings

                                                  Residential building use more, emit more than anything else. Hot water, boilers, furnaces. Leakage in AC and appliance refrigerants

                                                  heating in your building might be more than your car?

                                                  massive efficiency improvements required, non fossil fuel energy sources for everything... address refrigerants

                                                  Other, Everything else...

                                                  mostly flare off gas, leaking natural gas pipelines, etc. this is super low hanging fruit.

                                                  to wrap...

                                                  To Do

                                                  Start with efficiency, then switch to the low carbon or no carbon sources/ideas

                                                  plenty of options, plenty of opportunity, plenty of job creation and new business space

                                                  Inbound

                                                    Outbound

                                                    020211022 Updated Ecovention Europe

                                                    22nd October 2021 at 12:05pm
                                                    Word Count: 79
                                                    Case Study: Ecovention Europe

                                                    Main Question

                                                    Can "Reduce" and "Reuse" be used as visually and conceptually meaningful design constraints?

                                                    Description

                                                    Green Acres is a 244 page publication focused on farming as artist practice, featuring long format essays from curators and artists, and (insert design strategy—fonts, color choices, layout, photography techniques, etc…).

                                                    Additional Facts

                                                    Using print on demand technology and unbleached recycled paper we continued the sustainability goals of the artists included in the exhibition and catalog into the production of the book.

                                                    020211022 Updated Green Acres

                                                    22nd October 2021 at 11:57am
                                                    Word Count: 84
                                                    Case Study: Green Acres

                                                    Main Question

                                                    How to represent sustainably focused artists and maintain a visually inventive book while avoiding tired “green design” cliches?

                                                    Description

                                                    Green Acres is a 244 page publication focused on farming as artist practice, featuring long format essays from curators and artists, and (insert design strategy—fonts, color choices, layout, photography techniques, etc…).

                                                    Additional Facts

                                                    Using print on demand technology and unbleached recycled paper we continued the sustainability goals of the artists included in the exhibition and catalog into the production of the book.

                                                    020211022005626 Ideas

                                                    22nd October 2021 at 1:04am
                                                    Word Count: 1427
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                                                    Collecting all notes from business coach conversations.

                                                    I am Kristian Bjornard, I am a sustainable design expert.

                                                    Affirmations/Aphorisms:

                                                    • Society is in a series of radical transitions. Why use my old ways? I need new, radical ways of working and thinking and acting.
                                                    • I don't care about happiness, I want satisfaction
                                                    • Time box calendar: get real with this, time box everything, schedule everything, work, life, leisure, play, etc.
                                                    • Do what you planned to do without distraction
                                                    • make the world a more just and sustainable place (for all life, not just humans)
                                                    • Make time for TRACTION!
                                                    • What painful internal feelings am I avoiding?
                                                    • Values: what are the attributes of the person I want to be? Want to become?
                                                    • Reflective, not reactive, work
                                                    • "High performing" means that you have a plan and stick to it.
                                                    • Create a system, create a routine, create a process to follow. Following that setup = high performing = success
                                                    • What is my identity? I am a sustainabilitist. I am a libre designer. I am a good parent. I am a good citizen of spaceship earth.
                                                    • Improve 1% everyday
                                                    • Time management requires pain management
                                                    • You must believe that you can do "this" (whatever this is)
                                                    • Say less, Ask more
                                                    • Be Humble, Stay Curious
                                                    • Everything is a learning and teaching opportunity.
                                                    • What am I not doing?
                                                    • What am I letting stand in my way?
                                                    • Where does my insecurity and self-consciousness come from?
                                                      • Intelligence and skill aren't the issues, I am keeping myself from trying to do things out of anxiety and overthinking
                                                    • work with purpose (what purpose!?)
                                                    • find meaningful work (what does meaningful mean!?)
                                                    • stop comparing myself to others and pursue what matters to me.
                                                    • what is our desired quality of life?
                                                    • how to align work, life, goals, meaningfulness?
                                                    • find the personal connection to my work

                                                    Clients:

                                                    • what kinds of ways of working do you prefer?
                                                      • get feedback right away, don't assume anything.
                                                    • what is your preferred method of communicating?
                                                      • email? Phone? In person???
                                                    • match their learning style to my consulting style

                                                    Self Signs/Self queues to look out for:

                                                    • the saboteur voice
                                                    • over thinking
                                                    • defensiveness
                                                    • fatigue
                                                    • perfection

                                                    Any of these signs mean that I need to reach out to someone, either my collaborators on the project, or someone... someone that can help supplement energy, ask questions, whatever...

                                                    Things I need to work on:

                                                    • Define the value add that I bring.
                                                      • I know a lot of facts about climate change; about "sustainability", but how do I show that I can DO something about these facts/with these facts? Not just talk about them in circles.
                                                      • I can find out the info, I know the questions to ask, but how do I show people I do this? Show people that I actually know anything useful, practical, not just theoretical?
                                                      • what do I know that I can summarize and post that would show the value add to current and new partners?
                                                        • start communications with value add

                                                    Stretch: what is beyond my comfort zone? Can I operate there? Create a new comfort zone, then what is outside of that? How can I do this over and over again to build new confidence? Need to shift and flex to do this. What ways can I find to live through he discomfort to a better place?

                                                    When do I feel discomfort? Why?

                                                    Pleasing my clients, mostly, not pleasing myself? Why?

                                                    New website.

                                                    • I did some overly wordy write ups, now I need to share those with people and get some more feedback...
                                                    • What value am I bringing to perspective clients? (Can I keep a running list of these?)
                                                    • What can I ask RG about in their project? How can they become a sustainability client, not just a website client?
                                                    • Reposition old projects? Which lend themselves somehow to something social/eco/sustainable?
                                                    • What other new ways of presenting myself are there? Writing about this? Other social posts? Can it all tie back to one single website/place to make it easier to find me regardless of path/search/etc.?

                                                    Look for more connections, where do my different interests and ways of working and aspects of my work connect? (Teaching for example, what do I do in the classroom with students that I can do with clients?)

                                                    The Saboteur.

                                                    • pay attention to myself. Every time the saboteur shows up, cause me to overthink or not do something... how to ignore? How to do it anyway?
                                                    • What are the clues that I'm self-sabotaging? How to self manage these things better?
                                                      • over thinking
                                                    • I have to fight the saboteur
                                                    • I am always over thinking everything, it gets in the way of acting.
                                                    • WORK ON REMOVING SABOTEUR's voice
                                                      • every time you start to over think things just push it aside.
                                                      • why do I think I won't be able to do something or will get a negative response? I haven't given it a chance?
                                                      • no one else is telling this client this thing, I'm the one here to do it, just do it.
                                                    • this went off course... well, now who cares until tomorrow...
                                                      • I get stuck indecisively going back and forth on what to work on if my day gets off schedule because of unintended things...
                                                      • gotta figure out how to not get totally sent off course when little road blocks or speed bumps pop up...
                                                    • sabotaging things based on ASSUMED reactions, client reactions I often assume are one way, like that they aren't respecting my abilities, this mostly isn't true. (MY INTERNAL TAPES ARE WRONG!)

                                                    HOW TO BE BETTER? What is the alternative?

                                                    Mis-Alignment

                                                    • why don't I satisfy my goals
                                                    • do well with students, why not translate this to my work more?
                                                    • is there something better out there?
                                                    • how to work better? Work smarter
                                                    • the business I've setup isn't really aligned with climate change!?

                                                    Self-Confidence!?

                                                    • why do I let my confidence get sabotaged?
                                                    • Anxiety and lack of confidence cover up potential pathways, smothers new opportunities in life and career

                                                    Misc:

                                                    • Translating skills of expertise
                                                    • Translating passions to a new platform
                                                    • Convert from the classroom to projects to business
                                                    • How to make them all teaching, bring some excitement I get from teaching to everything I do then?

                                                    Too much mental clutter, what can I do about it?

                                                    Focus comes from doing things as they come up

                                                    Are there alternative ways to fund my business other than just hourly rates and project fees? * flat rates, XXXX/wk? Or per month? * should I be an LLC? * do I need insurance for anything? * what kinds of grants are there for some of this work? * funded proposals? * where else to look for new work? * who else can I collaborate with? Where to look for and find collaborators? And would they have money? * talk to more people

                                                    Goals?

                                                    • make more $ in the short term
                                                    • be more satisfied with working in the long term
                                                    • by stopping some of the older and current work I am doing, can I instead start finding work that duplicates and supports and reuses thinking from my teaching and personal practice?
                                                    • how to make my work mimim what I say I believe in?
                                                    • more colaboration

                                                    DIRECT LANGUAGE: Say what I want, do it, bill it.

                                                    HOW DO YOU PRACTICE THIS STUFF TO GET BETTER AT IT! ARGH!

                                                    Procrastination: So I procrastinate, then I miss a deadline or run out of time to email someone back. Then I start getting anxious. But that makes me procrastinate even more... then eventually I just can't or don't do the thing at all — I've missed the window, or I perceive that I've missed the window and then just don't even follow up...

                                                    Make everyone a Co-learner, Co-partner

                                                    Share my gold nuggets

                                                    "Hey I like this thing do you want to talk more about this..."

                                                    Make the world more just and sustainable for everyone.

                                                    What platforms? How to get out my content? How do I make things BIG!? (Do I want to make it big!?)

                                                    VALUES: * family * health * carbon drawdown * ???

                                                    How do I highlight my passions? Highlight them in everything on my website, in project write-ups, etc.

                                                    Why do I want to avoid social media so much?

                                                    The world has shifted to fall into alignment with my passions

                                                    It is hard work to continuously work on something. Share the passion.

                                                    STRUGGLE: When behaviors change, feelings will follow...

                                                    • Change mindset
                                                    • Then change heart
                                                    • Then change behavior
                                                    • Then change feelings...

                                                    There is tension as these things continue to change at different rates and effect each other... pull on each other

                                                    Neuroplasticity

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                                                    I'm a bit lost. That's not going away.

                                                    I am interested in how libre design tools can be useful for the contemporary designer, as well as play into the larger ecosystem of sustainability, social justice, fair access, etc. How can we take tools like TeX and use them for more things, more kinds of projects? Can I typeset and layout some basic projects I do using something like TeX?

                                                    What else do I need to know? How to control the output page size? can I spec different fonts for different aspects of the page? are there any kinds of funky margin adjustments that can be made? can you do footnotes as a running sidebar adjacent the text? how does one include images in a usefully controlled way? can I pragmatically make the image that I use bitmaps during the processing of the document or do the images already need to be the way I want to use them (in thinking about how to make sure images use the least ink for example, use whatever I have and then standardize the way they are converted... I suppose I write an additional imageMagick command for that upon finalizing the image selections and placements?

                                                    What else can I play around with? How is this more sustainable? less tooling? less reliance on stuff like adobe? less reliance on the newest, overly outfitted computer machinery?

                                                    do designers have a lot to offer all of these communities? funny that it seems like few typographers and designers are in the groups for tex and scribus and such. But! is that just bringing some biases and such with me?

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                                                        Oh man, already at November... this is month 6? September and October were sort of busts — didn't add much, didn't write much. How do I get back to that original impetus — writing about sustainability and design and open source and all that jazz? Where do my answers and inspirations come from; or rather, where did they go!?

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                                                        Random Notes I found on a stack of index cards:

                                                        Science!

                                                        stitch sustainability and resilience into your product, everything you do from day 1, early adopters will pay more for that!?

                                                        Creating the possibility for more and better futures; not less and worse futures (or even just "the same" futures...)

                                                        Interfaith environmental work

                                                        we are all on this ship together

                                                        reimagine a world where we are a part of nature

                                                        collectively what we are doing is crazy

                                                        we all live on the same earth

                                                        we aren't just gonna engineer our way out of this; we engineered our way into this in the first place!?

                                                        care and activation????

                                                        Bottle neck????

                                                        Father Albert Fritch? jesuit priest? center for science in the public interest? earth healing appalacia?

                                                        Islamic foundation for ecology and environmental science

                                                        Yale forum on religion and ecology

                                                        The power of water

                                                        it can't be a personal transformation that feels good just for me. It needs to be for the whole common good.

                                                        what we choose to do affects everyone around us

                                                        Why is talking about something more meaningful going to be better??? (what does this mean!?)

                                                        these ideas... are they self serving? how are all of these sustainable design ideas about doing useful, improving things, the welfare of all live, and not my own ego and/or glamour!?

                                                        Why can't I make good choices? why don't I make more inspired choices?

                                                        There are always physical manifestations of our digital worlds (physical implications?)

                                                        why is this time lost? why aren't there other ways to stay connected

                                                        Sunk Cost Fallacy

                                                        Compost Pile Cookery

                                                        Ecovention Europe: what did we actually do on this project that was useful??? Sara De Bondt manifesto??? Can I write a short essay for this and all my other projects that tries to explain/encapsulate what is important? what is a better format?

                                                        How do I keep the standard of living that I have without needing to own a house or a car?

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                                                        Depressed. Hopeless. Afraid. Insecure. How did I get to this place?

                                                        The Libre Designer. Doing this talk again for the University of Utah. How to make it faster, better, clearer? > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l7LN7mD5bPqEapWyD4K8JQHPbcwQDhF7/view

                                                        should I call it These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian again?

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                                                        FOCUS!

                                                        • climate change
                                                        • reduce carbon
                                                        • how do I do those above two in teaching and work and life!?
                                                        • how do I help others do it too?
                                                        • how do I document and visualize what I do, what I help others do, as examples?
                                                        • and, how to do it acknowledging context!?
                                                        • where else to look for $$$ and help?

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                                                        OMG. Other people on the internet are blowing my mind.

                                                        https://www.are.na/block/13817473

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                                                        My response to @nico-chilla 's block https://www.are.na/block/13817473

                                                        My complaint is that problem-solving is not a good defense of the value of design

                                                        Problem solving is bullshit. Okay, let's just say we're all in agreement on this... do what else are we saying is design? Maybe more importantly, do we need to define this?

                                                        So, problem solving isn't necessarily the thing (I mean whose problems? from what perspective? what context? is this a problem that even needs to be solved??? so many questions with that angle...) but... there is still some sort of agenda or ideology brought to a design task. And I think that's sort of an important aspect of what "design" is — its the most human impetus, seeing that something is missing or not working, and trying to do something about it. Everyone is a designer some of the time? Every job involves "designing" some of the time? Sometimes plumbing is just plumbing, but sometimes plumbing is designing. Sometimes graphic designing is designing; but sometimes its just working on a dematerialized adobe powered assembly line.

                                                        So, yes, everyone and every profession is sometimes a designer/design. But, I don't think this makes it meaningless. It is something worthwhile to learn and embrace. That you don't have to "be a graphic designer" just because you're majoring in graphic design; the "skills" can be transferable if you're willing to see the concepts, the processes at work.

                                                        And no, I don't mean design thinking and how might we questions; I mean the how do you translate your interests and desires and intentions into things — these things can be posters, websites, apps, books, zines, dances, songs, flags, chairs, gardens, whatever.

                                                        My complaint is that problem-solving is not a good defense of the value of design

                                                        Sure, but then what is? is is problem finding? question answering? speculating? narrative making? And I think that you're right, problem solving alone isn't the defense — that you come up with a new sort of thing is also important — and I embrace the idea that "new sort of thing" might also be an old thing, but brought to a new time/space/context/mixture with other old things..

                                                        "the intentional solution of a problem, by the creation of plans for a new sort of thing"

                                                        An intentional solution? A contextual creation?

                                                        Christopher Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form starts out with “These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” And so there is this idea that some kind of form and some kind of function are brought together; not necessarily clearly for the goal of problem solving but that you've outlined some network of forces at work due to a given context, and that interplay reveals something to you…

                                                        I don’t think “design” in any meaningful sense exists beyond a historical and cultural zeitgeist, intimately connected with industry and technology. The right response to someone using their education as a stepping-stone to a job is not to show them how design is valuable to the world, but to encourage them to forge their own personal connection with the vibrant community and discourse around design.

                                                        Your last line is really the crux of all this here. Whatever your experiences are; design should be a way for you to better understand them and better secure the place you want to inhabit in the world based on those experiences (or in spite of those experiences I guess, so no one else has to experience them if they are justifiably terrible!?).

                                                        Perhaps in thinking about our experiences, and the experiences of others; not in a "user" perspective; but as people, we can also better grasp what a designer can do to take on wider responsibility in their work. This gets even more important if we take a "welfare of ALL life" lens, not just people, but the whole planets systems...

                                                        The other thing at play here? "problem solving" is something a single designer can do when you're focused on the form of something with a fairly specific societal fit; say modernism in Europe, it specifically fit its societal constructs, but this notion that new, "universal," intentionally simplistic forms could radically reshape culture doesn't really do it anymore … so we can't have a designer or two be the only people in the room "problem identifying" and then "problem solving" — any new "wicked problem" needs a lot of people; those actually affected; which might be different kinds of people, situated in different parts of the planet, affected in different ways!

                                                        But even just deciding "what am I going to have for lunch today" could be an opportunity for design; and is one that's totally different based on contexts, and would be best answered by a group brought together for the task of doing something about this question...

                                                        I mean, this can lead to discussions of various design vernaculars across time and place…

                                                        oh! so really, if we are bringing this back to a teaching/educational perspective; okay, so how does one learn about different ways design may or may not be defined? does design need to help others? Are we learning processes for engaging with the world based on our experiences? or are we teaching/learning some clever tools for form making? I feel that much of my "work" as a designer gets stereotyped as window dressing or that the asks even of the themselves are to make something look like something else regardless of where or when or who its from/for... Is taking design classes about learning short cuts to forms that are known to be "good forms" — in which case, yeah, what problems are you solving anyway (even if we don't like that definition), that's not design if its not new or isn't about making it repeatable or useful beyond a one off? That's just copying, that's just production line; that's making the car, not designing the car.

                                                        A lot of designing is making/designing as a hybrid, you think on your feet and iterate and change and adapt as things come together and the diagram of your forces continues to evolve... But when you just get to blindly making, well, you aren't really designing anymore; that's when designing is production... not "creation" … but now is this just another poorly defined and explained alley to navigate?

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                                                        I'm tired of "graphic design" being an important adjectived design discipline I guess... and that UX and UI and whatever else you want to throw in front of design are somehow "different" — a book is an interface; most websites and apps are really just collections of posters… its all type and image and storytelling and whatever …

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                                                        I'm tired of "graphic design" being an important adjectived design discipline I guess... and that UX and UI and whatever else you want to throw in front of design are somehow "different" — a book is an interface; most websites and apps are really just collections of posters… its all type and image and storytelling and whatever …

                                                        1.1 Understanding the basics of Sustainability

                                                        23rd August 2021 at 4:04pm
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                                                        Ch1: What is Sustainability? Learning Design for Sustainability

                                                        Define: Sustainability

                                                        From https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-design-for-sustainability/understanding-the-basics-of-sustainability?u=56743745

                                                        Sustainability, related to Definitions of Sustainability

                                                        Cambridge dictionary: The ability to conitnue at a particular level for a period of time

                                                        Brundtland report:

                                                        "Our common future"

                                                        Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

                                                        BRUNDTLAND COMMISION, 1987.

                                                        The Triple Bottom Line

                                                        What we should measure and how we should measure it

                                                        Net profits and loss > how to extrapolate out the bottom line to social and environmental issues, not just economic...

                                                        TDL: The three p's > people, planet, profit > people planet prosperity

                                                        The three pillars of sustainability, all three categories are necessary to support sustainability

                                                        the venn diagram > when aspects overlap, there are certain kinds fo outcomes.

                                                        but even better is the concentric circles, shows their relationships (nature can operate without a human economy, a human economy cannot operate without nature.

                                                        Not every entry in a checkbook is a deposit > no sustainable design is ever a perfect solution, but you have to have OVERALL benefits even if there are some debits.

                                                        Critique: doesn't go far enough, how to include culture perhaps as a separate autonomous element? are there other critiques? without making maters of culture explicit it can be neglected or forgotten

                                                        1.2 A Diversity of Sustainable Design Approaches

                                                        23rd August 2021 at 4:29pm
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                                                        Ch1: What is Sustainability? Learning Design for Sustainability

                                                        2012 > institute for manufacturing, university of cambridge, increasingly complex approaches to sustainability for designers

                                                        • Green design: optimize individual aspects of product design; just "going green" isn't sustainable though...
                                                        • eco-design: goes beyond singular materials, looks at LCA of the whole product (Okala is an example); a designer will focus on something of interest to client, then improve on that area … as you improve environmental performance in one area its easier to improve in other areas...

                                                        Sustainable Minds > user friendly LCA tool

                                                        sustainability isn't implied by these first two, not a "social" aspect, just looking at the environmental impacts

                                                        more about the focus than the name?

                                                        1.3 The Sustainable Development Goals

                                                        23rd August 2021 at 4:38pm
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                                                        Ch1: What is Sustainability? Learning Design for Sustainability

                                                        Sustainability is not new, for over 50 years experts have been convening with the purpose of creating a sustainable future for humanity

                                                        BRUNDTLAND COMMISION, 1987.

                                                        UN Sustainable Development Goals > SDGs > end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities, and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind; explainer video: 'We The People' for The Global Goals | Global Goals > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpqVmvMCmp0

                                                        You can't really isolate goals; many of them cross... for instance, poverty, hunger, and quality education are linked.

                                                        Graphically revealing connections between goals can be good.

                                                        Stockholm Resilience Center > aligned the goals with the triple bottom line; they've interrelated the 3...

                                                        Pyxera Global > venn diagram with the goals in 4 larger buckets

                                                        clustering concepts can generate insights addressing multiple problems/challenges with solutions …

                                                        Wendell Berry Solving for Pattern anticipate unintended consequences... prevent new problems for arising... seek out patterns that help us more mindfully approach challenges

                                                        1.4 Unleashing Sustainability in all its Forms

                                                        23rd August 2021 at 4:45pm
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                                                        we are so obsessed with technologic innovation we miss other opportunities

                                                        thinking creatively doesn't mean just innovating new TECHNOLOGY

                                                        different forms of innovation align to different opportunities for The Triple Bottom Line

                                                        SCAD Design for Sustainability Graphic

                                                        • Technological Innovation: materials, LCA, circular economy, C2C... this is the "What" ???
                                                        • Perceptual Innovation: worldview, systems, mental models. The "Why" ??? challenge status quo, challenge assumptions, make sustainable alternatives more accessible to general public. Bridge between Tech and Social innovation. If you can change the paradigm, everything else will follow. Einstein Quote
                                                        • Social Innovation: too often overlooked, organizational and community processes, codesign, decentralize... the whole over the parts? human-centered is a subset of this... the "Who" ???

                                                        100% Sustainable Products Now!

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                                                        PDF pamphlet by Edwin Datschefski

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                                                          2.1 Life cycle thinking and natural capital

                                                          2nd September 2021 at 12:18am
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                                                          Learning Design for Sustainability

                                                          how to see natural resources for ALL their constributions; all their resource potential...

                                                          Marsh example... you either see it as something to turn into a parking lot or whatever, or you see ALL the resource potential it has... all the ways that nature's ecosystems services do for us!?

                                                          high cost to replacing services that nature gives us for free

                                                          how do our perceptions create our realities?

                                                          become acquainted with teh dominant worldviews

                                                          treat others as yoou want to be treated vs. might makes right

                                                          "normal": modern society has gotten very good at take > make > waste processes...

                                                          202007271900 The Libre Designer

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                                                          The Libre Designer

                                                          (or; why designer's don't f/los)

                                                          live on youtube 202007271900: <https://youtu.be/fLfeWtOpFto>

                                                          MICAGD Summer Camp / LIBRE GRAPHICS with Kristian Bjornard

                                                          20200724 Update: My plan to use the F/LOS video conferencing platform JitSi Meet is not quite working out, so we will be switching to a zoom call!? And just a heads up incase it wasn't clear, this is less a "workshop" or "demo" and more of a lecture/walkthrough w/ Q&A and discussion.

                                                          A general outline for things I'll be trying to talk about and touch upon can be found on GitHub: <https://github.com/bjornmeansbear/lectureScripts/blob/master/theLibreDesigner.md>. And I'll also be trying to maintain an up to date document as things transpire during our time together Monday evening on EtherPad; this will be a way other than just zoom chat that links can be shared and questions can be co-authored or expanded upon in real time: <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/thelibredesigner>.

                                                          Optional Homework: If you are totally new to the ideas of Free/Libre and Open Source, here is a great quick intro as to what is open source. You could look into the Free Software Foundation's definition of free software.

                                                          Tired of giving over all your money, attention, and energy to our Neo-liberal capitalist oligarchs? While to get paid you still might have to design for them; you do not have to use the software and computers made by them! Come on a tour of wild world of Free/Libre and Open Source Software available for Graphic Designing. (Inkscape, ImageMagick, Nodebox, Blender, etc.). There will be time for Q&A.

                                                          The realm of Free/Libre Open Source (F/LOS) offers deisgners not only a pragmatic approach reviving how sociocultural artifacts have historically been created, but also a critical approach that, through utilizing ideologically based software and tools (and having far more easy of access to software and tools) intentionally positions itself as antidote to status-quo capitalism. A designer will find more ways to make; less obstructions to their creative vision; and the ability to learn from and to give back to a community.

                                                          I am writing this as a sort of lecture/essay – but I will first be giving this as a series of live streams on Twitch (I hope); then as a "virtual workshop;" then perhaps as a presentation at a small DrupalCon...

                                                          Anyway, the goal here is to point out simple to complex opportunities for a designer to start to integrate the practice and ideology of open source into their practice.

                                                          Welcome.

                                                          My name is Kristian Bjørnard. I teach a variety of Graphic Design classes at the Maryland Institute College of art – mainly open studios for the seniors where they work on their capstone design projects, and then some web and motion and interactivity related courses for sophomores and juniors, and the occasional elective dealing with sustainability.

                                                            1. Some Brief Background

                                                          I first got into Free/Libre Open Source back in 2006. My first real, intentional entry into this world was using Drupal, a then novel content management system, to build websites. It seemed too good to be true – tons of people all over the world collaborating together to make a family of modules for doing all kinds of complex web things! Here was this amazing thing and it was free to download and free to use for whatever and however I chose? At the time I could never do too much more than occasionally participate in discussions around theming... but! Woah!

                                                          I ended up drupaling for a while... and then when I started getting much more into thinking about how design might be more sustainable, I was thikning about vernacular buildings[How buildings learn by Stewart Brand] and then how open source software like drupal evolved over time and adapted much like vernacular biuldings... and bam! I thought, oh, maybe something about f/los was more sustainable? I was also thinking that something like a typeface was important to make more accessible to more people for the purposes of sustainablity – ... and again, Libre type accomplished this...

                                                          The last sort of other path that helped lead me to "Libre designing" was being a publication designer and having a lot of projects with little to no art budget. So, let's say you're told you have basically $0 extra dollars for stock photos or hiring your own photographer, what are you going to do? Well, its another space I found – public domain and creative commons licensed images out among the piles of the internet... We'll get directly into this soon, but I just wanted to mention that my actual deisgn practice, mitigating the constraints of low budget projects, aslo accidentally led me to the ideas in the presentation...

                                                          So I've dabbled off and on with libre fonts, OS tools like Drupal, and then the occasional creative commons and public domain licesnsed imagery, etc.

                                                          This really got to be part of my practice when I ran a class about "Open Source Design" in 2018? (foot note class? footnote AIGA conference? footnote essay about the class?)

                                                          (anything else????)

                                                          Now, onto the libre designing.

                                                            1. An Introduction

                                                          For this array of ideas, I'm first going to introduce you to F/LOS if you haven't really had much of an introduction to it in the past. Then I'll try to outline from simple to complex how a designer "liberates" their practice. At the end, and throughout, I'll point out reasons that perhaps this isn't more mainstream incase you're not already thinking that...

                                                          Some Content Warnings:

                                                          • I will be derogatory towards neoliberalism
                                                          • I will mention Marx, Communism, Henry George, Mutual Aid, Peter Kroptopkin, and other socialist, anarchist and libertarian thinkers
                                                          • I will bring up issues of classism, racism, and sexism

                                                          Hopefully you know what you're here for!

                                                          The foundations to the Free/Libre Open Source arena has several interesting connections to the greater domain of Graphic Design. As such, I continue to be surprised how little our discipline seems to know about and partake in this world – outside of web design.

                                                          I will talk too long about the foundations for F/LOS if I get into it, so I'll skip over some backstory for now – but! the start of free/libre open source is partially related to graphic deisgning.

                                                          There is a great anecdote about Donald Knuth and being so offended by the bad typesetting of his computer programming books that he decides to invent a typesetting/layout program and magical font to draw all other fonts; this becomes TeX and Metafont, super great ideas that you can still use today ... And then the origins of free software and GNU are that Richard Stallman is so upset that Xerox won't share the firmware code for a printer that isn't working right, he flies into an ideological, libertarian rage, quits his job, and vows never to make or use non-free software...

                                                          If you want to investigate this all more; I highly recommend finding out more about Donald Knuth – he is just an amazing person – and Tex and MetaFont – or even trying to use TeX (MacTex, LaTex, ConTeXt or some other fork)... If you like HTML and CSS you'll probably like "designing" documents in TeX. > check out Overleaf <https://www.overleaf.com/>. There are some cool old videos of him showing people how to use computers in the 80s...

                                                          You can also read all sorts of history and foundational information from, by, and about the Free Software foundation (<https://www.fsf.org/>) and GNU (<http://www.gnu.org/>)...

                                                          Oh, And then there is "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond, which does a good job outlining how Linus Torvalds created his world of distributed hackers to rapidly build and improve upon the Linux Kernel as it evolved... This is also a foundational text for how "Free/Libre" became "Open Source"... And can be useful for thinking about how or why "Open Source" is so pervasive in web design...

                                                          FYI: The history of intellectual property (at least in Europe/USA) is largely one of those in power trying to control things; not the less powerful trying being protected. (1556 establishment of the Stationers’ Company’s monopoly in England was largely intended to help limit the Protestant Reformation movement's power. By putting the entire printing industry in the control of this company, the government and church could prevent the dissemination of ideas. (from <https://lawshelf.com/coursewarecontentview/history-and-sources-of-intellectual-property-law/>))

                                                          Some examples to get things framed correctly right away?

                                                          - What sorts of common technolgy? what kinds of more general examples can I give them? - 1974 & 1979 AIGA/USDOT Pictograms/Symbol Signs (<https://www.aiga.org/symbol-signs/> & <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_pictograms> & <https://thenounproject.com/aiga-icons/collection/symbol-signs/>) - The Idea of a RECIPE. - Any other tie ins with sustainability or anything else?

                                                              1. Libre Not Gratis / Free as in Freedom

                                                          Okay, so we'll be talkinga about Free, Libre, Open Source – let's make sure we define F/LOS!.

                                                          What is Libre Graphics?

                                                          When I say "Libre Graphics" I am linking to the Free/Libre part of Free/Libre Open Source.

                                                          (this is where Stallman goes!?) Printer anecdote? His ideas of "freedom" > FSF/GNU

                                                          When "free" software st arted it was about the freedom to do with software as you pleased.

                                                          [stallman golden rule slide?]

                                                          FSF 4 freedoms.

                                                          Free as in Freedom, not as in price! (Libre not Gratis) You can still charge money for F/LOS; the point is to not stop someone from doing what they want with a thing (like when you buy physical objects). The point is not to give everyting away and go broke and die destitute in the gutter. I'll try to point out as we go why this is useful.

                                                              1. So, what is the libre designer

                                                          I say "libre design" instead of "free design" for the same reason – we don't want people to think that this design shouldn't cost anything; that it should be free to have done or to use; but that it should be about increasing people's freedoms, increasing liberty; not locking someone into a software or design ecosystem. Not prohibiting someone from doing what they need to do or want to do with a design tool; with a design.

                                                          Basically I mean that the recipe for any design should be shared for anyone to use; and the software, tools, or equipment should be as shareable and attainable too (like you might still have to buy equipment; but ideally its "open" as well so that you can hack and customize and control physical and digital equipment the way you need to while executing the recipe the way you want as well).

                                                          I'm interested in this for a few reasons:

                                                          - from a sustainability angle, many of the status quos ideals and practices are not useful; endlessly upgrading computers and software; intentional obsolescence... - If we are decentering, decolonzing, anti-racisting design; well then we can't use white supremacist computers, software, tools. - Historically culture is created using processes F/LOS is often recreating - If you are speculating other futures, and you want to get away from the "possible" and into the probable, preferrable, or impossible, well, agian, why use the regular, everyday tools? - I am bothered by the hegemonic sameness of so much design, is part of that because we are all using the same computers and programs?

                                                          The libre designer is a utopian device; a character as in any story; to show you another way, to be emblematic of other ideals. The libre designer stands for design tools and outputs that help return cultural production

                                                          There's so much to talk about :)

                                                              1. A note on licenses

                                                          There are so many... we can dive into this more at the end if anyone cares; but in general there are truely free/libre licenses like GPL, CC share alikes, Apache; and then there are permissive license, MIT being the most used/known one. Basically, the libre licenses say that if you want to use this, great, but whatever you use it in also has to be open and shared in the same way. the permissive licenses say you can use this, and all you have to do is try to make it clear that you used this in your program or code somehwere; you _do not_ have to share your code the way I've shared mine... One is viral; one is isn't...

                                                              1. So! how to get started as a Libre Designer

                                                          We'll start from the most clear and concrete things and end with the big, abstract, blurry ways to liberate your designing.

                                                            1. Liberated Imagery! Tragedy of the commons

                                                          The easiest way to get started on this adventure is to change the photos, illustrations, icons, etc. that you might use in a project. This is easiest for several reasons:

                                                          1. You don't need to change OS or software – any "free" image works with any tools you are already using. Nothing to install; turn on; reconfigure... 2. You don't need to ask permission; you're probably already finding these things for projects and clients anyway... 3. You sometimes don't even have to look in new places; just change the way you search/look... 4. You also actually solve a bunch of potential copyright/contract issues by finding "free" imagery

                                                          Okay! so what does F/LOS mean to imageS?

                                                          So what we're looking for when we are looking for F/LOS imagery is imagery that is somehow licensed for anyone to do with it as they want. This often takes the form of "public domain" or "creative commons" or sometimes the "free art" or "libre art" license.

                                                            • Add some things from Copy This book here? or at least reference it? or say if you want to learn a lot more about copyright and how these ideas fit togeter with contract law for traditioanl practice ou might like this book?

                                                          - Public Domain - Creative Commons 0 (CC0) - CC Share Alike (and its variants) - GPL? - Libre Art? - MIT - UnLicense - Anything else? (what does undraw use?)

                                                          Good places to get started finding this stuff...

                                                          - Unsplash (<https://unsplash.com/>) - Undraw <https://undraw.co/illustrations> - the Noun Project <https://thenounproject.com/> - Creative Commons Use&Remix section: <https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/> & <https://search.creativecommons.org/> - RawPixel Public Domain: <https://www.rawpixel.com/category/53/public-domain> - dover clipart / finding and scanning old things (photographic personal prints, books from before 1925)

                                                            1. Libre Fonts

                                                          Once you have liberated your imagery and graphics, the next level is your fonts. Almost everything will work still with your existing hardware and software, but it is a magnitude harder to find, download and install some of the F/LOS fonts compared to just images...

                                                          There are some open source fonts already installed on the average computer; and adobe fonts brings in some of the google font library; so you can just turn a few on there to get started super easily

                                                          <https://fonts.adobe.com/foundries/google>

                                                          Google fonts is doing a lot of cool new stuff. They're hitting this variable font thing pretty hard, and part of that means that almost any newer typeface is being converted to a variable font. This also means that almost all the newer google fonts have the full 9 weights + italics, so getting a font from google fonts these days doesn't really mean its limited in glyphs, weights, quality, whatever

                                                          <https://fonts.google.com/>

                                                          Eli Heuer?

                                                          I dig velvetyne, who are french, and then this italian foundry, (TK), and the League of Moveable Type...

                                                          - [Open Font Library](https://fontlibrary.org/) - [Google Fonts](https://fonts.google.com/) - [Beautiful Web Type](https://beautifulwebtype.com/) - [KB Libre Type Are.na Channel](https://www.are.na/kristian-bjornard/libretype) - [A Repository on GitHub you can just fork and/or download](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/fonts) - [UseModify](https://usemodify.com/) - [Velvetyne](https://www.velvetyne.fr/) - [The League of Moveable Type](https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/) - [Badass Libre Fonts by Womxn](https://www.design-research.be/by-womxn/)

                                                          A cool aspect of these fonts then is also you can not only get the fonts to use on your machine(s), share them with your clients and printers and friends and colleagues witout worry... you can also for the most part find and download the acutal source files used to to make th fonts. Does the F/LOS typeface you like not have a certain character or weight? well download the UFOs and edit it! Do you want to make a custom typeface for a client as part of their identity? find the thing closest to your vision from the F/LOS world and tweak it!

                                                              1. Quality of Fonts

                                                          The universe of F/LOS fonts can sometimes feel limited... and can sometimes feel less-than in terms of quality. I would say that in general, while you might not end up with as many typographic nicities; real small caps, different styles of numbers, etc. this isn't always the case. Many of these F/LOS fonts are designed to serve populations, users, audiences, etc. historically not served. SIL for example, an organization who has done a lot for Libre Fonts (<https://software.sil.org/fonts/>) has many fonts with huge character sets so they could set their materials in as many languages as possible (they provide language tools to all manner of commnunites)...

                                                          Often over time F/LOS fonts evolve to have more features just like software, etc. Raleway for exmaple was launched w/ one thin weight by TLOMT (<https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/raleway>); but was forked and the incarnation that lives on google fonts has 9 weights, and italics, and even an extra display version, raleway dots. <https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway?query=raleway#standard-styles> & <https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway+Dots?query=raleway>

                                                              1. Font Management

                                                          Font management is both easy and terrible with F/LOS offerings and on Linux in general. As far as applications for font management go, there's not a lot, and the one good-ish one upkept by a designery person is no longer maintained... So you're stuck manually putting things in the right places. The good part of that is that, well, using MacOS depending on what you're useing you can just use whatever font manager you're already using... Some of the F/LOS tools however, they just don't know to look for fonts anywhere except the main system folder... This is hard to add/delete fonts from if you're a regular computer user... but in Linux, there is pretty much only the sytem repo for fonts, so thus the bias/seemingly annoying "feature" (or "bug" depending on your view)

                                                            1. Now for someting completely different

                                                          Programs!? How do you start switching your tools and programs and software!!??

                                                          Your images and your typefaces are now liberated. Not its time for all your software. This is the biggest leap; the largest jump; the hardest mental chasm to bridge so far. For somethings its a no brainer; for others its a nightmare. Let's try to navigate a small amount of this more complicated territory. Think of this as a partial; an incoplete map; of a terrain...

                                                          Now, today is a good day to try and find and use some of this stuff – there have never been so many easy to install and decent to use graphics tools. For the most part, most of this stuff now has mac/windows installers now – this was a big problem in the past; running a program in an emulator or virtual machine; having to download/install from the command line...

                                                          You could start with programs that only exist as F/LOS – things like Drawbot, OBS, Nodebox, Processing – there aren't adobe nor native mac programs that really do these generative design things, or are rad for video streaming/screen recording...

                                                          Once you start building up your library of F/LOS tools, to do cool things you wouldn't be able to do otherwise, you can graduate to starting to replace some of your proproietary software...

                                                          An incomplete list of all the libre graphics software you might want to try.

                                                          - [Blender](https://www.blender.org/) - [GNU Image Manipulation Program](https://www.gimp.org/downloads/) - [Darktable](http://www.darktable.org/) - [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/) - [Krita](https://krita.org/en/) - [Nodebox](https://www.nodebox.net/) - [Scribus](https://www.scribus.net/) - [Drawbot](https://www.drawbot.com/content/download.html) - [Processing](https://processing.org/) - [ImageMagick](https://imagemagick.org/) - [GhostScript](https://www.ghostscript.com/) - [FontForge](https://fontforge.org/en-US/) - [Birdfont](https://birdfont.org/) - [OBS](https://obsproject.com/) - [Jitsi Meet](https://meet.jit.si/) - [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org/) - [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - [Olive Video Editor](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/) - [LibreCad](https://librecad.org/) - [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org) - [Ardour](https://ardour.org/) - [VLC](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/) - and so much more...

                                                          There are things like ImageMagick and GhostScript that are basically background applications – you can run them from the terminal and other programs actually rely on them to do key things. Imagemagick lets you manipulate images, pdfs, etc. from the command line... (here, let me turn this PDF into a folder of jpgs) Ghostscript is a terminal based PDF creating/editing tool!?

                                                              1. If you only remember one thing

                                                          The key to all of this is to properly mentally frame this for yourself. Try to think of everything I show you or talk about today not as direct replacements for your regular processes or tools; but as reasonable alternatives – they might do things differently; but you'll be able to end up at the same final result: well designed graphic objects...

                                                              1. File Formats

                                                          If you've gotten this far, you might start to think about file formats – how can i still share or fix things if I for some reason don't have access to what I need?? file formats are way more universal; standard in the F/LOS world.

                                                          For example, .SVG is a standard, open file format for web AND print. Illustrator can also read it. So can Sketch. So can Figma. SVG is really an XML document, so you can even read/edit SVGs with textedit or whatever coding IDE you like.

                                                          This is true across the F/LOS ecosystem. Usually, whatever file formats are used are open; or if not, then they try to be some sort of plaintext (XML or other sort of text doc) to try and make readability even without the right tool, possible... Scribus documents are also really just XMl files, look you can see more or less what's happening here in VSCode; and I can even edit the file here, save it, and when I reopen it in Scribus my document will have a new page. Here's what happens when you try to open an illustrator file in VSCode...

                                                            1. Time for an Operating System Update

                                                          So you think you want to try GNU/Linux?

                                                          If you have been able to ditch Adobe; if you see all this and say, hell yes, liberate me from my technocratic overlords; then you can probably try ditching Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. You should give GNU/Linux a try.

                                                          - [Debian](https://www.debian.org/) - [Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/) - [PopOS](https://pop.system76.com/) - [Manjaro](https://manjaro.org/) - [OpenSUSE](https://www.opensuse.org/) - [RedHat/Fedora](https://getfedora.org/) - [EasyOS](https://easyos.org/) - GNU/Linux Distributions

                                                          And then besides figuring out what distro works for you there is the ecosystem of front ends too!

                                                          - [GNOME](https://www.gnome.org/) - [XFCE](https://xfce.org/) - [i3wm](https://i3wm.org/) - [There are so many desktop environments for GNU/Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment#Examples_of_desktop_environments)

                                                          This starts to make way more sense even then designing software – the way your computer looks, works, etc. – shouldn't a designer weild some control over how a tool works? how their main "studio" is setup – how it acts, behaves, interfaces??? You can actually desing your interfaces; design your own icons; pick whatever typefaces you want to display wherever you want – It's way more of a design dream!

                                                            1. New (old) Machines

                                                          Most of the GNU/Linux OS world is meant to run on MANY kinds of computers; from tiny internet of things chipsets to big mainframes and everything in between. That means that its a lot easier to get a basic install of GNU/Linux running on whatever you have laying around than MacOS or Windows... You also have sizeable control over what GUI you use; os you can preserve resources for running software or rendering 4D graphics over giving all your finder windows dropshadows and animated effects.

                                                          An advantage of all this is that you might et more life out of an old machine; you might get more life out of an underpowered machine...

                                                          You should be able to fix your computer if it breaks; you should be able to customize your computers if you desire; increasingly this is getting impossible – it was already hard with Apples, but now most manufacturers are heading this route, especially for laptops. Using older or more liberated computer workstations means you have many more options for customization;

                                                          I mean if you want to be hardcore...

                                                          - Old windows laptops: The more standard the better for old hardware; GNU/linux tech entusiasts really like the thinkpad line of computers (<https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Lenovo+Thinkpad&_sacat=177&rt=nc&Storage%2520Type=SSD%2520%2528Solid%2520State%2520Drive%2529&_dcat=177>) - Generally Apples, particularly the newer couple of varieties, are making harder and harder to use options. There is so much proprietary stuff on them; the trackpads are hard to talk to for most linux kernels; the newest models with the A2 security chips are nearly impossible to utilize with linux... - Libre companies:

                                                          - [System76](https://system76.com/) - [Purism](https://puri.sm/) - [KDE SLimbook](https://kde.slimbook.es/) <- KDE makes a desktop environment as well! - [Tuxedo](https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/) - [Pinebook](https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/) - [Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/) - [PiTop](https://www.pi-top.com/products/pi-top-3)

                                                          You can also look on FSF.org they link directly to fully liberated computer sellers.

                                                            1. Time for (your) practice

                                                          So, you've changed image sources; you've changed fonts; you liberated your tools and your computer and OS... how to liberate your works?

                                                          As you start down this path you will find and see so many more opportunities... (like jitsi meet instead of zoom)

                                                          Now, your software, and maybe even your hardware, are liberated. You can use images, fonts, and programs that may be bent to your whims and will and flight of fancy. Great. How do you do something with them now that embraces all the same ideals as a process for producing work and future works?

                                                          How can you make your making liberated too?

                                                          How to apply F/LOS to designing?

                                                              1. Why Share more

                                                          - If we are open and share our designs, whatever, it is easier as a novice to learn how something is done; you can partake in freedom 1 – studying, etc. - Can we adapt to changes or different workflows more easily and quickly? - More collisions of ideas? - iterate design solutions instead of creating new ones all the time? - it's fun?

                                                              1. Version Control

                                                          To help share more; to make it clear

                                                              1. What else? (braithwaite OS design vid)

                                                          If designers participate this way what does it look like? Garth Braithwaite: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djf8sLjtbzU>

                                                          1. Share your process just be more open about what you are doing (if you are able!?). Share what you are going through, success and failures – maybe it is more important to share your failures frankly. Mention who inspired you or that you built off of. Be more transparent about who your mentors, inspirations, etc. were. This builds community; shows the interconnected nature of work and ideas.

                                                          2. Share your Source Files If you can, share your files. I mean it is even better if you could always write a tutorial or documentation; but just sharing your files with libre licensing allows others to learn from how you've made things by just opening them up and poking around.

                                                          3. Whenver possible use text-editable Code (XML, HTML, JS, Python, plaintext, MD, Whatever) It is the easiest thing to work with on any system with any tools one desires. It is also easiest to version control. AND if you are designing for the web and you try to design with HTML/CSS you can easily preview it on the real systems that you're designing for.

                                                          4. Collaborate. Design is frequently not a "hey lets get together and make some stuff" discipline. Its often about being a singular design visionary; a design hero; and this is partially the fault of design history...

                                                          5. Donate!? If you make something things that don't end up being needed for a project, can you just donate them to the public domain? or with a CC license that allows sharing and remixing?

                                                          6. Contribute Can you design for the community in some way? how can you offer design skills back to other open projects? if you like a libre font, can you make sure to contribute design work you've made with it as examples for the type designers? build a webpage for an open project that needs a website? mockup alternative interface ideas for a tool? share tempaltes for Scribus? or Inkscape? Just submit issues, or go through issues related to design stuff and then try to answer other people's questions?

                                                              1. Why don't designers F/LOS

                                                          - Won't get credit - Pride - Unreasonable Greed. I don't want to give this away cause it might make me money! - don't want to be judged for how the sausage is made - file formats - tooling - fear of "design by committee" - lack of desire

                                                          Its not just that designers CAN open source; but the benefits are so good; we're foolish not to be more open. And there are some designers trying out these methods... but as an industry we're still just really tied to.

                                                            1. What's hard? What's Bad? What's not easy

                                                          In general; this stuff isn't easy. It's hard to just set out and do all of this – even the imagery and fonts stuff because there is expectation that designer's use certain type from certain places; you might be asked specifically to go to certian photographers or certain stock photo sites or be given aready unfree things to work with. Choosing to abandon adobe and apple... well, you probably can't do that if you have any sort of normal design job... ????

                                                            1. Conclusion

                                                          In general; the main thing keeping us from this is the desire of the status quo not to change. Neoliberalism works best when we all do what it wants. "free markets" not "free software".

                                                          The goal of this isn't actually full F/LOS adoption. I mean, my libre designer character I like to play, that's their goal; but in my own actual work, it isn't always possible to abandon everything every one else is using and doing. Clients will need you sometimes to make a book in InDesign; you might need to work in AfterEffects to work on your team... Instead of taking the extreme view, think of this really as a way to do more; to have more tools; to have more ways of doing things; to be able to make every more formal experiments; to better tie formal choices

                                                          How might this help you remove bias? what other kinds of interfaces might you now see and experience? What other kinds of interfaces and systems and opinions will you run into???

                                                          Designers are supposed to be designing fabulous interfaces. But! almost all of us use the same software on the same computers and so have an incredibly limited range of ideas for what makes an interface; for what makes a good interface; for what makes an accesible interfaces...

                                                          Think about this: the way desktop publising works on a computer, it was designed by a handful of people in the 80s, specifically to be done on a tiny mac at the time...you know like 8 key people decided a direction and a bunch of semiotic symbols for how to do things, for what features and icons and whatever else exist in these places... How much has changed since then? how much the same are these programs and ecosystems? Can steve jobs, Warnock, and (Page maker dude)'s ideas and decisions they made leading up to 1984 still be the right ones in the present we find ourselves in? Maybe some of these other tools grasp that ???

                                                          There are tools here that don't exist on a mac or windows machine; that's rad!

                                                          Other Resources:

                                                          - What is Open Source Explained in Lego: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8fHgx9mE5U&list=TLPQMjMwNzIwMjDvdkWAxlxtzw&index=2> - Garth Braithwaite; Designers CAN Open Source: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djf8sLjtbzU> - [Github Open Source Guides](https://opensource.guide/) <- FYI: the imagery for each "card" is an SVG and marked as open source; they're part of the guide repos; you can take the illustrations and use them for something else!

                                                          I should flesh this out heavily!!?

                                                          4 domains of Design

                                                          23rd August 2021 at 4:22pm
                                                          Word Count: 209

                                                          The first order of design is communication with symbols and images.

                                                          The second order of design is design of artefacts as in engineering, architecture, and mass production.

                                                          In the middle of the 20th century we realised that we can also design activities and processes. We work progressively more with these activities and services. That’s the third order of design. In the beginning we called it Human Computer Interaction. Now we work with any kind of interaction – it’s about how people relate to other people. We can design those relationships or the things that support them. It’s this interaction I’m after.

                                                          The fourth order of design is the design of the environments and systems within which all the other orders of design exist. Understanding how these systems work, what core ideas hold them together, what ideas and values – that’s a fourth order problem. Both the third and the fourth order are emerging now very strongly.

                                                          Some designers have the ability to deal with these very complex questions that lie at the core of our social life. Not every designer, but some have the ability to grasp the ideas and the values at the core of very complicated systems. Those are fourth order designers.

                                                          Richard Buchanan

                                                          50 Years BauHaus

                                                          20th June 2021 at 2:06am
                                                          Word Count: 18
                                                          BauHaus Book In Decker Library Pedagogy

                                                          BauHaus Grafik (Special Catalogue)

                                                          Exhibition of International Graphics from the BauHaus Print Workshop

                                                          © Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart 1968

                                                          50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 01

                                                          23rd August 2021 at 2:25pm
                                                          Word Count: 55
                                                          50 Years BauHaus

                                                          (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 36)

                                                          initially espoused the Building «» guild «» craftsman concept which then lead to "art & technology as the new unity" (col1 pg36 ¶1 L9 – L14)

                                                          somehow I think this leads us in the present to...

                                                          Everything Is Connected (but what is the tagline to engage people with?)

                                                          Sustainability? restorative practice? ethics?

                                                          Inbound

                                                            50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 02

                                                            23rd August 2021 at 2:25pm
                                                            Word Count: 45
                                                            50 Years BauHaus

                                                            (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 36)

                                                            • technological research?
                                                            • inner forces, practical possibilities of the material
                                                              • Impersonal creativity « that's a cool concept
                                                            • collage » montage (collage evolved INTO montage?)
                                                            • economy of design: minimal effort, maximum effect
                                                              • can we also think about minimal CO2, maximum effect?

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                                                              50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 03

                                                              23rd August 2021 at 2:26pm
                                                              Word Count: 35
                                                              50 Years BauHaus

                                                              (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 36)

                                                              The only completely new and most important element of today's design is form (bauhaus 1926)

                                                              reframe this through the lens of sustainability? restorative practice? drawing down carbon?

                                                              50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 04

                                                              23rd August 2021 at 2:26pm
                                                              Word Count: 19
                                                              50 Years BauHaus

                                                              (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 36)

                                                              If art is for arousing emotion, what is design for? the same?

                                                              Inbound

                                                                50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 05

                                                                23rd August 2021 at 2:26pm
                                                                Word Count: 38
                                                                50 Years BauHaus

                                                                (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 36)

                                                                So, we can tell what a modernist design is...

                                                                but what is a

                                                                • sustainabilitist designer?
                                                                • environmentalist designer?
                                                                • permaculturist designer?
                                                                • restorationist designer?
                                                                • socialjusticeist designer?

                                                                • a disciplined romatic? (huh?)
                                                                • a pragmatic utopian? (huh?)

                                                                50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 06

                                                                23rd August 2021 at 2:27pm
                                                                Word Count: 62
                                                                50 Years BauHaus

                                                                (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 36 50 Years BauHaus)

                                                                Paul Klee, 1921:

                                                                on the whole there is nothing wrong and nothing right, it simply lives and materializes through the interplay of forces

                                                                Wassily Kandinsky:

                                                                youth must get away from the rigid atmosphere of “either-or” and must move into the flexible, vital atmosphere of the “end”

                                                                (pg36 col3 ¶2 L4 – L7)

                                                                50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 07

                                                                23rd August 2021 at 2:27pm
                                                                Word Count: 37
                                                                50 Years BauHaus

                                                                (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 56–57, 50 Years BauHaus)

                                                                Where to find out more about "NATUR KUNST MAN" (Nature, Art, Man) Schlemer's BauHaus stuff

                                                                Curriculum for the course "Man" > nature art man presentation, 1928

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                                                                  50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 08

                                                                  23rd August 2021 at 2:28pm
                                                                  Word Count: 30
                                                                  50 Years BauHaus

                                                                  (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 56–57, 50 Years BauHaus)

                                                                  This idea of a gradient of forms?

                                                                  Absolute form «» a formal way «» a synthetic formal style «» imitation «» natural truth

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                                                                    50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 09

                                                                    23rd August 2021 at 2:28pm
                                                                    Word Count: 23
                                                                    50 Years BauHaus

                                                                    (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 75, 50 Years BauHaus)

                                                                    50 Years Bauhaus: Found Note 10

                                                                    23rd August 2021 at 2:28pm
                                                                    Word Count: 54
                                                                    50 Years BauHaus

                                                                    (on loose sheet stuck into PG. 75, 50 Years BauHaus)

                                                                    Combine the functions of an art academy and a school for the applied arts » then, also include social and environmental aims »

                                                                    we get to:

                                                                    Combine the functions of an art academy with a science lab, a farmyard, an anthropology seminar, and with business acumen...

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                                                                      99% Invisible

                                                                      20th June 2021 at 1:42am
                                                                      Word Count: 2
                                                                      Podcast

                                                                      A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design (With Special Attention to Peter Sloterdijk)

                                                                      10th August 2021 at 11:57pm
                                                                      Word Count: 137
                                                                      PDF Source

                                                                      The very spread of the word "design" from daily objects to cities and ecosystems, is taken here as a symptom of an interesting switch in the theory of action that has been typical of modernism. The paper review five connotations of the verb “to design » and analyze them as an alternative to the notion of "construction" and "fabrication". It then presents the work of Peter Sloterdijk has a crucial contribution to the philosophy of design. It shows especially how Sloterdijk’ notion of explicitation allows to reconsider materiality (a materiality to which design has always been sensitive) but freed from naturalization as well as from the balancing act between form and function. Finally, it offers a challenge to the design theorists for inventing the tools that could allow this philosophy of design to “draw together » matters of concern.

                                                                      A Child Walking

                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 11:22pm
                                                                      Word Count: 50
                                                                      Author

                                                                      How this works?

                                                                      A child learning to walk doesn't really care about learning to walk... We get it when we're initially learning that we just try stuff and eventually, usually rather quickly, we figure stuff out.

                                                                      How to keep this focus on the process? Invest in the Process

                                                                      A Climate Designers Lecture Outline?

                                                                      27th August 2021 at 11:48pm
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                                                                      Lecture Senior Seminar
                                                                      • A Glossary
                                                                      • Hello, I'm Kristian
                                                                      • An Introduction
                                                                      • So You Want To Be A Climate Designer?
                                                                      • A Beginning
                                                                      • Eric Benson & Fresh Press
                                                                      • Carbon Sequestering Ink!?
                                                                      • A Book that Draws Down Carbon
                                                                      • Climate Designers [dot] org
                                                                      • Climate Designers is a Website & a Community
                                                                      • What is a Climate Designer?
                                                                      • Climate Designers: Goals
                                                                      • Goal 1: Practice
                                                                      • Sidenote: ClimateBase
                                                                      • Goal 2: Pedagogy
                                                                      • Behind the Syllabus
                                                                      • What Do Climate Designers Make?
                                                                      • Everything is Connected
                                                                      • Cycles are Everywhere
                                                                      • Back to the Book
                                                                      • Grasp the Ephemeral
                                                                      • Grasp the Immaterial
                                                                      • Grasp the Invisible
                                                                      • Signs Signaling Sustainability
                                                                      • Visualizing CO2
                                                                      • Where Else to Get Inspired?
                                                                      • Project DrawDown
                                                                      • DrawDown.org
                                                                      • Low←Tech Magazine
                                                                      • DC High Water Mark
                                                                      • Alternative Future Possibles
                                                                      • Future Possibles
                                                                      • S.O.S.
                                                                      • Ecovention Color Palette
                                                                      • Climates
                                                                      • Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary
                                                                      • A Conclusion
                                                                      • An Ending
                                                                      • Take Risks and Be Bold
                                                                      • BauErden
                                                                      • BauErden (Build Earth)
                                                                      • Earthstronauts
                                                                      • Spaceship Earth
                                                                      • The End
                                                                      • Fin

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                                                                        A CO2 Absorbing Book?

                                                                        12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                        Big Ideas Climate Designers Project The Sustainabilitist Utopian Gestures

                                                                        Designers Taking Climate Action

                                                                        How can we make a book that has a negative carbon footprint? Carbon Negative Paper? ala Eric Benson's Fresh Press

                                                                        Carbon negative ink? Ink that absorbs CO2 over time and thus becomes readable AFTER it has stored a certain amount of carbon!?

                                                                        A Conversation Around Open Source, Sustainability, Aesthetics, + Design

                                                                        19th July 2021 at 2:00pm
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                                                                        Aesthetics Conversation EmailChain Essays F/LOS The Sustainabilitist

                                                                        Two friends discussing how designers might better use open source tools and participate in open source communities amongst other things. Things quickly overlap with sustainability and general visual ideas … This exchange happened over email between 2015–04–09 and 2015–05–27. The actual email that started the whole thread is missing (or maybe it was actually an in person conversation and this was a response to it …), this picks up right afterward. It has been edited for grammar, spelling, and some tangential content has been removed. Most of it is basically the direct exchange… Additional thoughts have in a few instances been added to help flesh out the ideas more fully, mostly as footnotes.

                                                                        - Kristian Bjørnard (KB) / Karen Shea (KS)

                                                                        • KB:
                                                                          • Your comment about how terrible GIMP looks (and many other open-source-y tools) bothers me. Why don’t designers participate in open source communities the same way that developers do? presumably the design of the tools can be open just like the programming. Is there just not an easy way for designers to get involved? is everything too technical, even in terms of designing how something should look? or is it that no designers really participate already, and everything is so hard on the the eyes that the few designers who try the tools just turn away in fear or disgust? How do we get designers making design-magic for these open source tools? (And designing in accordance w/ the ideals/values of the community; but that is a different conversation.)
                                                                        • KS:
                                                                          • It’s funny because just this week I offered to help make some icons as part of our coming mobile GL launch and I decided to give Inkscape a real try. It was really frustrating to use initially but once I got sort of used to the key bindings and interface I found it to be a powerful program that is really useful for creating web graphics.
                                                                          • I asked around a little about designers contributions to open source projects and it seems like when design without code is contributed it never gets implemented. I would chalk this up to the incumbent attitude in open source development communities that talk is cheap — you need action. There is a general “jfdi” policy. If a developer is going to spend the time to contribute his code to an open project it’ll certainly be his idea, not some fancy designer’s. This is predictable though because if no one is paying you to do it, thinking about UI design is either a luxury or an annoyance that in my experience developers don’t think about in the same way. To me this exposes the incongruous expectations between designers and developers. Designers are expected to learn to code but developers aren’t expected to have cultivate an eye for design, even though it can take just as long for someone to learn to design well as it does for someone to learn to code proficiently.
                                                                          • It’s frustrating but who knows maybe it’ll change soon now that everyone understands in this new tech bubble just how important design is.
                                                                        • KB:
                                                                          • I think it will change. Especially since so many designers are more connected to the coding side of thing, or at least have different kinds of relationships with developers.
                                                                          • I’m planning on giving some of these things a try. I’m interested in abandoning Apple and Adobe, but it will involve some serious exploration of the landscape out there, as well as building my own new tools and workflows to accommodate software the mainstream design world isn’t using.
                                                                          • I will have to say it is depressing to see screen shots of these tools as they look like they’re from 1999 still. It’s like you must have at least seen software made in the last 3 years, or you use websites right, you can’t not know that things can look different if you just try a little. Maybe my expectations are skewed? Or biased to a consumerist, capitalist version of things.
                                                                        • KS:
                                                                        • KB:
                                                                          • Wow. That is true that there is a certain sort of vernacular feeling that you get looking at that whole page in total.
                                                                          • They’re “bad” from a certain aesthetic point of view. But, one thing they have going for them is an absence of aesthetic self-consciousness. This seems valuable, so while they perhaps aren’t the level of formal goodness designers would want to see or create, they at least seem honest and authentic and “true.”
                                                                          • An interesting question to ask is what style/aesthetic properly embodies values of sharing, open-ness, collaboration, etc. — ask the Ehrenfeldian question, “what do you want to sustain?”¹ — and then ask, how does what this looks like embody the right feelings? how does the look and feel of this icon/logo embody the values we want to exude rather than merely look “good”? I think there is something that can maintain the authentic, honest, just-do-it, attitudes of these, and still be more formally successful …
                                                                          • Oh! Also, I met this guy last week who was at MICA doing a workshop about open source font design. He is part of a publishing collective in Belgium that only uses open source tools, and tries to make it so anything they figure out anyone can use to do their own things. Here’s his collective: [http://osp.kitchen/](http://osp.kitchen/
                                                                        • KS:
                                                                          • Wow this OSP project is so cool. I’m really bummed that I missed a workshop! Their Univers cut is soooo nice…
                                                                          • I think logos in the GNU listing really reflect one kind of sustainable design to me, that is, where the concept/spirit of the project is absolutely held to a higher regard than aestheticism (it probably helps that apart from main pages and these logos there isn’t a visual aspect to the programs). I think there’s always going to be something inherently superficial about aesthetics and visuals. Any time how something looks is more important than what it does/is/stands for, I think it’s bound to have some unproductive considerations, as far as sustainability goes.
                                                                          • This now makes me think that a lot of “sustainable design” (e.g. packaging for allegedly green products) is kind of a compromise: like is “sustainable packaging” an oxymoron in most cases? Of course the exceptions are for things that need to be packaged in some way for hygienic or expiration reasons.
                                                                          • You probably have thoughts on that having taught a packaging design class.
                                                                        • KB:
                                                                          • Yeah, it was really interesting to get to talk to the OSP workshop leaders. (Loraine Furter and Eric Schrijver. Brief writeup of their MICA workshop from 2015: [http://schr.fr/collaborative-open-source-type-design](http://schr.fr/collaborative-open-source-type-design]()))
                                                                          • There might be something superficial about visuals to a certain extent — things often just are based on a style or trend — but there are certain things that while in a “style” still maintain a timeless quality to them. For instance, the Parthenon is of the roman, classical style. However, visiting it inspires awe in you and you feel that the space is still “right” in most ways. The same goes for plenty of other times/era’s buildings, they maintain rightness even after the trend for a specific look has gone. Other buildings or objects in a particular style feel dated even if they use all the same tropes that the timeless things might have … (I think Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa’s book/exhibition [Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary](http://amzn.to/2ws5okW) deals with this idea nicely.)
                                                                          • To me there are a few directions a “sustainable” aesthetic can take.
                                                                          • 1. That the aesthetic is somehow timeless — a correctness is found that continues to properly exudes the feelings of sustainability and the values of the org, business, or thing into the future;
                                                                          • or,
                                                                          • 2. That the style is properly ephemeral for the use’s ephemerality (durability of style matches durability of material and object). This would allow that there are some styles that make sense, even trends that make sense, provided their aesthetic lifespan can match the use’s lifespan. So, a mailer is okay to have be super trendy or super of a style or time; an automobile, maybe not…
                                                                          • From the point of view of the open source projects one problem with their logos is that they don’t really adopt the same process that the software themselves do, right? Besides GNU’s mascot/logo most of the rest of those have not gone through a process of updating and refining. The code, the projects themselves, do have that happen — occasionally there are rewrites, one person fixes another person’s mistake, a feature is removed or added, things just generally improve and evolve. There are also rules for how code is written, multiple people then contribute based on a common system/style. Many other points of logic and information engineering are put into place. There might even be review or testing to make sure code is good and works. None of that happens on the logo or the design of most of their sites trying to document the projects … nor seemingly with much of the GUI when there is GUI.
                                                                          • I do like this idea that the concept/spirit of a project is held in higher regard than superficial design, but there must be some way to embed the values of a project into a visual that desires to be “good” visually? just like the programmers desire their code to be “good”? Now, one might argue that there are slightly more objective ways to judge good code — does it run, is it bug free, can another person understand it, does it break other parts of the program, etc. — but there aren’t always obviously objective ways to judge visuals in a similar fashion; especially by the non-visually-skilled.
                                                                          • re: packaging — I was constantly conflicted teaching that package design class. The main goals of packaging are to protect, inform, and sell — Protection to me being the most important. From a sustainability point of view, this one also is useful since idiotic contemporary packaging is often necessary to protect things from theft which are now easy to steal because they’re sold in a giant store where no one can easily pay attention to every place… anyway, maybe that’s not the most sustainable commerce system?
                                                                          • I would say that sustainable design specifically related to graphic design is basically just thought of as eco-friendly design generally. By changing the materials or the manufacturing process you make it “sustainable” by making is more eco-friendly. This isn’t really true sustainability. Packaging design is pretty much the worst offender of this, but basically because people have become focused often on the “sell” part of the goal of primary packaging. This is changing with places like amazon becoming the most common place a person might buy something. But still, the protect and inform pieces have become second fiddle to the selling … I don’t like that from a sustainability point of view. Do these open source projects “package” themselves more sustainably then? Are they more about the “inform” over the sell???
                                                                        • KS:
                                                                          • I just remembered this article I read a while ago that you might be interested in: [Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft](https://medium.com/backchannel/why-i-m-saying-goodbye-to-apple-google-and-microsoft-78af12071bd)
                                                                          • I didn’t know Dan Gillmor’s name before this but it was still interesting. I would love to make all the same switches away from big tech, but it really does take a huge time commitment, at least initially.
                                                                          • I’m starting to think that visual design should follow that idea in sustainability “only use as much as you need, no more and no less”; and this idea is related to functionalism, which then makes evaluating “good” design easier. If you can clearly state why you need some aspect of “visual design” then explaining how something is good is just explaining how it achieves its purpose and how it is visually pleasing or … maybe not pleasing but at least appropriate? Sometimes elegance is appropriate, sometimes ugly is appropriate for the message. By that logic then, if branding is at its essence giving something visual distinction, then it intrinsically precludes trendiness because once something follows a trend then it’s less distinct and just generic.
                                                                          • It’s interesting to think about the ephemerality of the something to help define how “sustainable” the design is. Specifically in packaging I think that’s successfully addressed in things that degrade over time or containers that are meant to be Reused. Even if these solutions aren’t always the most visually elegant, they must be expressing a value that’s central to the spirit of the project/thing/group over flashiness, or, in packaging, the “selling” part of the goal. It becomes pretty obvious when making money is the most central part of a business.
                                                                          • I’ve noticed since moving away from design or visual anything at work that I’m not much of a visual person, and maybe never was to begin with. I have a little bit of style but actually not a very good eye for what makes things visually “beautiful.” I think this eye for beauty is a little ruined by my inability to see past the idea of something, and I’m starting to learn that there are people who are the opposite, and for whom if something isn’t beautiful they can’t accept it as “good.” This is too bad, and I wonder how we can change it.
                                                                        • KB:
                                                                          • That Gillmor piece really gets me thinking. Between that and the open source guys a couple weeks ago I’m gonna have to start looking into some alternative hardware, not just software, at least for experimentation.
                                                                          • > “only use as much as you need, no more and no less.”
                                                                          • That’s an interesting concept from a formal point of view. What is “what you need” in terms of visuals? What are the resources required for form making and then maintaining an identity or visual system?
                                                                          • I do think trying to more objectively discuss what “good” design means is useful, but it is really very hard. Technically weren’t modern architects were trying to make their buildings about engineering-like functionalism — but they got just as caught up in aesthetic ideals as anyone else — and worse, their aesthetics often were non-functional despite their “rationalism”???
                                                                          • Sustainable design obviously must avoid that sort of problem.
                                                                          • Perhaps something about “timelessness” is worth investigating. What makes the things that outlive their styles/trends have that longevity? So many things made in the same visual styles die, yet bits and pieces from every movement live on. What makes some danish modern chairs eternal while others, emulating the same style, can feel so dated? Why should one shade of orange go out of fashion while another is eternal?
                                                                          • To shift the conversation slightly, are there also ways to make the discussion of aesthetics moral like discussions of politics or legal issues? We talk about right and wrong in regards to the law — that is not really any more “concrete” than a discussion about what somethings looks like. However, we’ve created serious systems of thought and language to allow for proper argument and discussion on the topics … is the visual realm just behind in earning the right discussion tools? Or, rather, have we as a culture just not accepted the visual with as much seriousness as these other things? (the language definitely exists right? people into critical theory and some other aesthetics related branches of philosophy must have these conversations, just most regular people and developers and even regular designers don’t really talk about this …)
                                                                        • KS:
                                                                        • KB:
                                                                          • I am definitely familiar with Ram’s principles, but haven’t read them recently, so it is good to look at them again now alongside what we have been discussing. I need to reevaluate some of my design decisions moving forward. As little design as possible seems like a good mantra for sustainabilitists (and opensourceists?).
                                                                          • Timelessness is something I’ve been thinking about a lot. Timelessness. Longevity. Durability. Resiliency. Adaptability. How does a piece of graphic design properly account for those things? How does the durability of a design match its ephemerality? How does the durability of a material match it’s intended lifespan? Why do things made of permanent materials get produced with the intention of only lasting a few months, days, or hours?
                                                                          • Software, products, and buildings typically fit this mindset better than graphics themselves. Maybe that’s why its such a confusing conversation. We know software will have a lifespan, hopefully a fairly long one, and we also know that we’ll be maintaining it over time — adding things, fixing things, changing things. Shouldn’t the formal aspects be considered as a part of this? they certainly are in good products and buildings.
                                                                          • I think I am going to assign some sort of open source design project to one of my classes … maybe the sustainability kids? or perhaps some senior level course, as sort of a real-life scenario sort of project … Any other leads on where I might find good listings of open source projects that might be looking for design help?
                                                                        • KS:
                                                                        • KB:
                                                                        • the end?

                                                                        References:

                                                                        • [^1]: From Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability by John Ehrenfeld and Andrew Hoffman (http://amzn.to/2wrMsTv). John Ehrenfeld tries to explain his vision of sustainability as first defining what it is you want to sustain, and then making your actions all fit that. So, here I’m thinking we decide what about open source we are trying to represent, and then try to aesthetically and formally support that; not just default to the visual solutions of main stream interfaces and software and products …
                                                                        • [^2]: Hmmmm. Is using open source designed stuff from designers capable of working this way (both designing AND building/iterating/improving tools to help designing) one way to get deeper into this? Are other open source designed things the only typefaces, graphics, etc. allowed in an open source tools UI, etc.???

                                                                        A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist

                                                                        15th June 2021 at 3:13pm
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                                                                        A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist

                                                                        by R. Buckminster Fuller

                                                                        a dialectical space

                                                                        22nd June 2021 at 11:02am
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                                                                        "Designers occupy a dialectical space between the world that is and the world that could be" - Victor Margolin.

                                                                        What is a dialectic?

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                                                                          A Dynamic Chain that Passes Through Different Formats

                                                                          18th June 2021 at 3:58pm
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                                                                            A Final Example: Ecovention Europe

                                                                            27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                            Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                            Fast forward from Green Acres. Sue Spaid, now living in Belgium, has a new exhibition: Ecovention Europe, ecologically inventive artists working in Europe, and there is another book.

                                                                            In the interim since Green Acres, I heard designer Sara de Bondt discuss the Radical Nature catalog designed for the Barbican in London. De Bondt's studio wrote a sustainable printing manifesto as part of the research for the catalog's production.

                                                                            De Bondt's "manifesto" reminded me about constraints for framing design decisions: How might I re-examine the design choices of _Green Acres_ through new constraints? Could I improve the sustainability (and the sustainable aesthetics) for _Ecovention Europe_?

                                                                            One of the items in De Bondt's printing manifesto is "use less ink." This meant selecting colors more carefully. The palette of _Ecovention Europe_ uses no color that adds up to more that 100% ink coverage. (_Ecovention Europe_ uses CMYK: and color palette swatches start at 100% pure C, M, Y, or K, and then are mixed in equal percentages to keep 100% or less total coverage: 50% + 50%; 33% + 33% + 33%; etc.). This resulted in a color palette that was fairly special for this book. Reducing ink also led to a graphic solution, bitmapped city aerial photos as the decorative section markers. The appearance of a filled area is kept, but less ink is used comparatively.

                                                                            Text columns in _Green Acres_ ended at full paragraphs breaks to make editing easier. This gave a formally-nice rhythm to text columns, but it was an inefficient use of space. With _Ecovention Europe_, I reduced this space by running all the text the full column heights. This had the secondary benefit of minimizing superfluous decoration: In _Green Acres_, superficial decorative elements filled those blanks left by text columns ending mid-page.

                                                                            I even tried to reduce decision making through reuse. The grid for _Green Acres_ had a lot of conceptual reasoning invested into it, and so I reused the page templates, type choices, grid setup, etc.

                                                                            As a conceptual exercise, this was great. But, did it make much of a difference? How could this be done differently and improved upon again next time? Is there an alternative to making this book at all? (Should this exist? I didn’t ask that question before we began!)

                                                                            A GENERAL DEFINITION OF SUSTAINABILITY

                                                                            6th August 2021 at 3:45pm
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                                                                            Definition

                                                                            Any action that does not degrade the systems supporting it

                                                                            A Good Teacher

                                                                            18th June 2021 at 3:58pm
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                                                                            Teaching Philosophy

                                                                            A good teacher has sound knowledge of the courses they teach. A good teacher maintains up-to-date information about their course’s subjects (as well as subjects related to course contents — this can be difficult, see you can’t know everything). A good teacher provides historical context for material in a course. A good teacher provides contemporary context for material in a course. A good teacher facilitates discussion and understanding between students (and sometimes facilitates intellectual conflict). A good teacher must promote conceptual reasoning (abstraction and reflection used to solve a design problem) and help students become analytical thinkers (good at separating a complex design problem into its constituent smaller parts).

                                                                            A Library

                                                                            23rd June 2021 at 4:47pm
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                                                                            Oh! can I show this as the book covers and link them to their tiddler? or even to some sort of online store or their worldcat entry? like http://www.thesustainabilitist.com/library/

                                                                            A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

                                                                            20th June 2021 at 2:09am
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                                                                            ISBN
                                                                            9780195019193
                                                                            Publisher
                                                                            Oxford University Press
                                                                            Year
                                                                            1977

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                                                                              A Quart of Milk

                                                                              18th June 2021 at 3:58pm
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                                                                              I’ve been busy lately, really busy, and half-gallons and gallons of Milk no longer seem to empty themselves in our refrigerator before their expiration. The problem was exacerbated by it now being summer, when drinking a frothy glass of milk just hasn’t seemed quite right. So, to try and keep spoilage to a minimum I switched to buying Quarts of milk instead.

                                                                              Until a year or two ago I used to consume so much milk — in pancakes, cereal, hot chocolate, coffee + tea, etc. — that it always seemed foolish to buy milk in such small containers. Not so anymore. I’ve found the quart to be an under-appreciated container size in the contemporary United Statesizen liquid world. The quart of milk is truly the perfect sized container (especially when in the glass, returnable variety). It actually fits in your hand. A child can easily lift it. Pouring is a breeze. No more spilt milk!

                                                                              Like so many other things, something that initially seems to be merely a choice about quantity ends up revealing something about the design of our environment. The milk-man’s glass quart is an everyday object that achieved near design perfection, yet has been basically forgotten by our culture …

                                                                              This idea fits into Jasper Morrison's idea of “Super Normal

                                                                              I had never given the quart a chance before, but now I must have my milk *only* in quarts. Besides the better relation to my hand, it also makes it much easier to have a variety of different milks (I like the fattier stuff, while most of my acquaintances prefer a skimmer choice) in the fridge without fear of spoiling. Lastly, when done, I take the glass quart back to my milk guy (and yes, I do have a milk guy) where it is refilled. Awesome.

                                                                              A Sustainable Designer?

                                                                              27th August 2021 at 11:48pm
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                                                                              Lecture Nebraska

                                                                              I like to say that I am a "Sustainabilitist" — that is, one interested in creating sustainability, one interested in working towards the sustainable!

                                                                              Sustainabilitists take over where environmentalism ends, moving from the realm of the environment into all realms. We must allow our designs, strategies and methodologies to evolve and adapt to new ideas, new hybrids — accept and deal with a constant flux between nature, society, economy — everything.

                                                                              Quick Background

                                                                              In my twenty year role as graphic designer I've designed books, record sleeves, magazines, logos, websites, exhibition graphics, and built digital tools. Regardless of final forms, or if its client-based or self-initiated, I treat all design projects as opportunities for intellectual inquiry and self-expression.

                                                                              I'm going to walk us through a few case-studies dealing with sustainability and its principles: constraint, aesthetics, vernacular, reuse, interconnection … and more broadly today I'll discuss "what Sustainable Aesthetics might look like." …

                                                                              The Sustainabilitist Principles

                                                                              _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ is a modular manifesto; a collection of my ideals for designing as a Sustainabilitist; the ways of thinking to create sustainably as considered in 2009. The goal was to create an object whose form directly embodied the principles it conveyed, while also disseminating them. It was a poster, that happened to also be a sculpture, and a novel concept.

                                                                              _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ visualizes two important concepts:

                                                                              1. Sustainable Design does not exist. 2. Everything is Connected.

                                                                              We'll get back to this in a sec, but first a detour…

                                                                              Detour1: What Does Sustainable Graphic Design Look Like?

                                                                              It's normal to talk about constructivists, modernists, conceptual minimalists, etc.; and know these as novel visual styles for their time and space. Visuals from these movements came from different ways of thinking. Modernism (for instance) was not about style for style’s sake, but style illuminating a novel theoretical position; style that was arrived at from a thought process, from a set of values, or from hypothesizing and experimenting.

                                                                              If "sustainability" requires different ways of thinking (some new, & returning to old ways!?), shouldn’t it carry with it some kind of new style (and/or reuse old ones!?)? We need a new new (or a new old new; or a remixed old???). Shouldn't there be something different aesthetically about sustainability? Designing for the welfare of all life is certainly a different mindset from designing for the corporate marketplace... do these things need to then look different?

                                                                              Back to my overarching question: “What does sustainable graphic design look like?" For me, this inspired a whole body of work; anything I made should/could be analyzed through this lens – does this look like sustainable graphic design?

                                                                              I have seen a few recurring “answers” in my work and work from the field:

                                                                              1. SGD looks the same. 2. SGD looks eco-friendly. 3. SGD looks innovative. 4. SGD does not exist. - A Pessimistic interpretation? - An Optimistic interpretation?

                                                                              ((Click through lots of examples of my work as I say these things))

                                                                              "Sustainable design does not exist" was first a pessimistic "fourth way." Is design all just trash? does design create waste period, so nothing is sustainable? Or, literally, sustainable design is not a thing: anything you are making is unmaking so much else.

                                                                              ((Victor Papanek there are some disciplines more dangerous? slide))

                                                                              But! "Sustainable design does not exist" came to signify an alternative vector; it didn't exist because it was ephemeral! because it reused existing objects in a new way! that it left no trace! suddenly this felt like a prompt for new works; new questions! A useful constraint going forward.

                                                                              ((Future cone!?)) ((Instead of problem solving, why not problem finding))

                                                                              Back to the Work

                                                                              _The Sustainabilitist Principles_, visualizes two important concepts for this talk:

                                                                              1. Sustainable Design does not exist. 2. Everything is Connected.

                                                                              re: 1, Sustainable Design Doesn't Exist

                                                                              _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ was the real example I've made of a design "not existing."

                                                                              _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ started out as me looking at the books on my desk, wondering where "sustainable" design lies within them… my trying to map connections between all these texts… my trying to write about and illustrate these principles I was garnering; the interconnections over time and space of similar ideals…

                                                                              The final, resulting piece _was_ the actual books from my actual bookshelf. I hadn't needed to make a book to explain these principles; it was doable with the objects themselves! Bring the right parts together in the gallery, and then *poof* everything goes back to its raw materials when the exhibition was over. Design that does not exist (beyond its necessity).

                                                                              The books were my books. The screen printed definitions, they were printed on title pages and front matter of found paperback novels. The novels went back to the free book exchange where they were found afterward. Even the shape of the "graphic" was meant to use the embroidery floss interconnecting things in the longest possible pieces to maximize reuse of the thread afterward.

                                                                                  1. re: 2, Everything is connected

                                                                              _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ visualized what I had been reading, what I had been thinking. It connected content from different decades, from different disciplines. _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ showed you where you could look for more. It simplified and condensed a lot of disparate material into a clearer, more accessible format.

                                                                              Connecting dots, connecting areas of thought, letting a newcomer get further faster!

                                                                              Ideas never come from one place; time and space and location are all intertwingled and different thinkers and makers in arrive at similar processes and useful principles through different paths.

                                                                              So the content is interconnected; but also the form! The way _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ ended up visually is a form of connection too.

                                                                              ((Show _The Greenest Green_))

                                                                              _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ is the closest thing I've made to pure “sustainable graphic design.” And, the principles I outlined within have influenced all the work I've produced since...

                                                                              Now, Let's see how else everything is connected: where these principles show up in more recent works!

                                                                                1. Green Acres

                                                                              _Green Acres_ ended up being an example of "SGD looks the same."

                                                                              I was doing a variety of work with The Contemporary, an art museum in Baltimore …

                                                                              (show a lot of things??????))

                                                                              … and the director, Sue Spaid, had an exhibition planned, with Artists using farming as their main form of practice and expression: _Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses, and Abandoned Lots_. We designed a book for the exhibition.

                                                                              I had a goal to make the book "sustainable." These were mainly sustainability focused artists, how could I better represent ecological inventiveness in the printed design? In the end the only thing that made the production of this book "sustainable" was that it was printed on demand, and printed using recycled, unbleached paper.

                                                                              Visually, the book was meant to critique commercial farming — juxtaposing more artistic graphics over an extremely constrained grid based on aerial photography of commercial farmland. The book intends to say something different, but generally conforms to common standards of "good" modernist layout. Other than a minor production method improvement, it's the same … !

                                                                              There was a glimmer of something else though: Reuse of a format! (or maybe "constraint" or "systems" from _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ ???). Sue had worked on an exhibition 10 years earlier called _Ecovention_. That book was an 8x8 square. So we made _Green Acres_ an 8x8 square to match as a collection.

                                                                                1. Ecovention Europe

                                                                              A couple of years later, Sue Spaid, now living in Belgium, gets a new exhibition opportunity. She calls it _Ecovention Europe_ — ecologically inventive artists specifically working in Europe — and there was to be another catalog.

                                                                              In the interim since _Green Acres_, I saw a lecture by the designer Sara De Bondt, where Sara discusses the _Radical Nature_ catalog her team designed for the Barbican in London. De Bondt's studio wrote a sustainable printing manifesto as part of the research for the catalog's production.

                                                                              ((show manifesto???))

                                                                              De Bondt's "manifesto" got me thinking about what other ways design decisions could be made, how could I embrace some of my old ideas from say, _The Sustainabilitist Principles_?

                                                                                1. Detour2: Vernacular Design?
                                                                                2. Back to the work, again

                                                                              Re-examine the design choices of _Green Acres_ For _Ecovention Europe_ …

                                                                              How might I make yet another 8x8 book, and drastically improve the sustainability (or at least the sustainable aesthetics) this time around? How could we re-approach the design of _Green Acres_, repurposing what we had done already?

                                                                              At this time I happened to be working on a project with a class around the 3Rs as design prompts (reduce, reuse, recycle). For _Ecovention Europe_ I decided to "Reduce" and "Reuse" my efforts on _Green Acres_.

                                                                              So …

                                                                                  1. Reduce

                                                                              One of the items in De Bondt's printing manifesto is use less ink. The idea of "Using less ink" meant selecting colors more carefully and to use them more sparingly.

                                                                              No color adds up to more that 100% ink coverage. (_Ecovention Europe_ uses CMYK: and color palette swatches start at 100% pure C, M, Y, or K, and then are mixed in equal percentages to keep 100% or less total coverage: 50% + 50%; 33% + 33% + 33%; etc.).

                                                                              Another way I tried to reduce ink was bitmapped city maps as the decorative new section markers. The appearance of a filled area is kept (relating back to a _Green Acres_ design choice), but much less ink is used as compared to a filled and full bleed grayscale or CMYK variant.

                                                                              Text columns in Green Acres ended where a full paragraph ended to make a few things easier from a design perspective. Yes, this gave a ragged, formally-nice rhythm to text columns, but it was an inefficient use of space. With _Ecovention Europe_, I spent time reducing the amount of unused space (this also minimized superfluous decoration — In _Green Acres_, superficial decorative elements that looked nice but served no functional purpose were all blank page areas.

                                                                                  1. Reuse

                                                                              The grid for _Green Acres_ had a lot of conceptual reasoning invested into it, and so I reused the page templates, type choices, grid setup, etc.

                                                                              Sustainable designers routinely find novel ways to reuse materials, but I felt that there was little discussion for the possibility of reusing visuals and solutions.

                                                                              Printing on demand was a concept also reused.

                                                                              As a conceptual exercise, this was good. But, did it actually make much of a difference? In a book like this, there are a lot of images, and the artworks didn’t adhere to the same ink coverage rules.

                                                                              How could this be done differently and improved upon again next time? Would a different typeface save ink and space? Are there other ways to handle image inclusion? Is there an alternative to making this book at all? (Should this exist? I didn’t ask that question before we began!).

                                                                              - _Ecovention Europe_ is maybe in the "the same" category, but is it moving into the "innovative" or "doesn't exist" category? - Where else does everything is connected fit in?

                                                                                1. A carbon sequestering book / Carbon Sink Book

                                                                              Idea: A book printed in an ink that acts as a carbon sink — the book's text only shows up gradually; it has to absorb the carbon to become black!!??

                                                                              how does graphic designing remove carbon? can a book recycle plastic? what logo captures the most carbon? what typeface uses the least energy and/or ink? what aesthetic is the most decolonizing? whose bias am I perpetuating? does designing matter? is building a wetland better than building a website? is using solar power better than writing all this shit down?

                                                                              1. paper. Some alternative fiber paper; 50% recycled content; 50% permaculture grown prairie grass fiber or something? reusing waste and practicing regenerative agriculture. 2. Ink. This is the real special sauce. How can something be printed clear; then the composition of the ink absorbs carbon dioxide out of the air, stores the carbon, and slowly darkens to carbon black over time!?!?!?! Oh, and is this compostable at the end of its life as well? 3. Cover. Again, cover needs to be compostable, recycled + permaculture fibers, and perhaps the type/image on the cover is just blind de-bossed? 4. Binding. Perfect bind? use some sort of compostable glue? What else would need to be figured out?

                                                                              The climate is changing. What does that mean. Social climates, ecological climates, both. How are climate and weather related? how does graphic design show or make this all more understandable? is focusing on climate change even important? is it too big? too abstract? What's the perspective of Drawdown.org on that idea? How does Climate Designers fit into all of this? What framework or ideology should lead? What about AirMiners? as a community do they have any stronger organizing principle or concepts other than just "get carbon out of the atmosphere and into other sinks?" What is the minimum you need to learn to understand this? to have enough people grok this to actually change some behaviors? to change some social and cultural structures? What does a climate friendly museum look like? what does a climate friendly school look like?

                                                                                1. Signs Signaling Sustainability?

                                                                              Should this whole thing be signs signaling sustainability > the libre actions are one aspect of this? reuse is one aspect of this? This is the unifying feature; all these things can be shown to do something from my "Sustainabilitist Principles" project from grad school???

                                                                              I like to call designs like this "Signs signaling Sustainability." This is the real opportunity for Designers taking climate action — turning each design opportunity into a sign signaling sustainability. Make tangible, make understandable something about climate change. This is doable no matter the project; no matter the prompt.

                                                                              So this sequestering book example focuses on "visualizing CO2". But, there are myriad other aspects of climate change and sustainability one might signal.

                                                                                1. Where Else to get Inspired

                                                                              I am *drawn* to [Project DrawDown](https://www.DrawDown.org) as a framework for revealing opportunities for "signs signaling sustainability". Project DrawDown presents the most effective means for pulling carbon out of the atmosphere. Digging into all the "solutions" on Project DrawDown, the ways artists and designers might involve themselves is multitudinous. All kinds of work can be reframed as a "sign signaling sustainability" if you rethink the aims of a prompt so that it fits into an idea from Project DrawDown's table of solutions.

                                                                                  1. Reverberation Crosswalk

                                                                              Take for instance Graham Coreil Allen's *Reverberation Crosswalks*. On the surface, these are fun, brightly colored crosswalks — paint on cement and asphalt; not particularly innovative in the "new materials" or "direct carbon capture." But! looking at Project DrawDown solutions, *walkable cities* is the 50th overall reduction solution. Suddenly *Reverberations Crosswalks* signals a sustainable vector forward. The neighborhood around this school is more walkable. You can't not notice the crosswalks, hopefully this makes you more likely to walk yourself. This concept is cheap; fast; easily replicated; can be customized for region, culture, available materials, etc.; AND can help make more people walk in the city. Bam! Climate Designed.

                                                                                  1. Solar.lowtechmagazine.com

                                                                              Distributed Solar Photovoltaics is also on Drawdown's list. And Low Tech Magazine's solar powered website signals how we might visualize energy usage; how we might enable new systems of powering our tools; questions if we really need constant connection; and how aesthetic choices correlate to physical resources even in the digital sphere.

                                                                                  1. DC High Water Mark Project

                                                                              The DC water mark project visualizes increased flooding and water level rise — where these impacts will be felt by you in this place! The water level rings articulates to us "oh shit, this place might be underwater pretty frequently given our current projected future!" Then maybe we can act accordingly and redirect our present towards a future where that is no longer true. Without *seeing* your house or office or favorite park area submerged, even symbolically, you cannot envision an alternative.

                                                                                  1. Amager Bakke Vapor Ring Rendering

                                                                              Copenhagen waste to energy plant is so clean it puffs just c02 and water vapor ... Captures 1 ton of C02, then exhausts it as a smoke ring. Help you visualize this otherwise intangible!?

                                                                                  1. Climate Design Posters?

                                                                              Printing thing after thing on the scrap paper left over in the RISO studio…

                                                                                1. Climate designers???
                                                                                2. Design a Days 2010
                                                                                3. Free/Libre Design Explorations
                                                                                4. A Permaculture Garden / Low Carbon Urban Homestead
                                                                                5. Whats the end!???

                                                                              What does SGD look like?

                                                                              I am currently inclined to believe that there is no single way that sustainable graphic design looks, nor a single “correct” way that it is made (what materials it might be, or what processes it includes can be easily sorted into good, bad, ugly, less bad, etc. — but one golden solution does not exist).

                                                                              A “correct” style may be irrelevant when it comes to what sustainable graphic design should look like.

                                                                              What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “sustainable design?” Brown paper? Soy Ink? Bamboo? Reuse? Is there a particular aesthetic? Is there a particular kind of client? Is there a particular product? Is there a particular visual trope or look or feel? How about a particular message? A particular manufacturing process?

                                                                              so what does sustainable graphic design look like? I'm still not completely sure, but I'm still working on it…

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                                                                                1. Visual Experiment

                                                                              Materials spoke too loudly, and everything looked “ReUsed” — some of the time in a negative way (purely from an aesthetic stand point). To the students, this proved problematic as

                                                                              it occurs again and again in green and sustainable design projects: the work wears its heart too much on its sleeve; it looks too eco-friendly and unrefined.

                                                                              This was not what they wanted for their work nor for Sustainability as a whole.

                                                                              actively trying to avoid making work looking specifically ReUsed, energy-efficient, or “green.”

                                                                              The work was meant to just be “good graphic design” — that it should look like other design, yet be more “good” in that it also embraced various aspects of Sustainability.

                                                                              To find new visual themes for sustainable design to draw from.

                                                                              The message revolved around variants of “include sustainable thinking more authentically in your life (and through your life, into your design practice).”

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                                                                              I am a Graphic Designer, was working as such before graduate school, and have been generally approaching the concept of Sustainability through the lens of visual design. This lead to the question I posed myself which deals with both sustainability and design, "What does sustainable graphic design look like???"

                                                                              I have moved towards a more theoretical philosophy of sustainability.

                                                                              An underlying theme I have found in nearly every text and work I have read is this idea of a trinity mentality towards dealing with sustainability — The triple bottom line it is typically referred to. Different people use different terms, but true sustainability always comes down to answering Economic, Societal and Environmental needs together.

                                                                              As a Venn diagram, sweet spots appear where sustainability in one realm overlaps sustainability in another. Each of these areas can be described as being sustainable in its own way, but only when each takes both the others into consideration will "true sustainability" be met. This is "sustainability in action"

                                                                              This leads to this next diagram, more the philosophy of sustainability; the Mindset that gets you to the center sweet spot on the last diagram. The concept is that our economy is a construct of society, and cannot exist out side of it. likewise, we as humans, thus our society, would not exist without the greater concept of nature, and are contained within it. This creates a holistic view to move forward, once this concept is grasped, one sees that any decision made in one realm will effect the other two as well, so act accordingly! Any economic choice IS an environmental choice.

                                                                              We are in a post-environmental world, and need to expand our thinking outside of any one realm into the others… These are the stepping stones towards my next set of "things."

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                                                                              Reduce, Reuse, Recycle[^3R] – often referred to as the "3Rs" (Not to be confused with Reading, Writing, & Arithmetic) have been an important aspect of environmental stewardship since the seventies. Now that we find ourselves in a contemporary climate crisis, how can we use the 3 Rs as design strategies? How does "reduce, reuse. recycle" contribute to an evolving sustainabilitist design practice; not just personal actions in one's life.

                                                                                1. Waste = Food

                                                                              To help frame and understand the 3Rs as a design aid, the concept of "waste = food" was employed. As a premise, "Waste = Food" has been most contemporaneously popularized through _Cradle to Cradle_.[^c2c] Michael Braungart and William McDonough want us to understand that our concept of waste is incorrect; we have a problematic relationship with waste. Nature produces no waste; outputs from one system are always inputs for another. Our current design and consumer cultures do not operate in this way. Karrie Jacobs points this out quite bluntly in her essay _Disposability, Graphic Design, Style, and Waste_: designers make garbage. Waste is just what we make – our inputs have only one output, trash! And trash must be sent away; not used for making more design. Maybe we can change that.

                                                                              To internalize this students were given "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" as a set of design prompts. Reduce helps us with the waste side of our equation. Reuse and Recycle help our previous waste become new food. How can our creative waste from one design process become food for others? Reduction asks to think about different ways of minimizing. Reuse looks at how to use what we have to do more. Recycle questions the regular way of manufacture. How do we utilize our materials in manufacturing more items. How do we take finished products back to raw materials for new designs?

                                                                                1. R1: Reduce

                                                                              _Focus on strategies for reducing material and energy impacts._ Reduce means to minimize outputs, conserve inputs, utilize tact and strategy in the form, the content, and the quantities of objects.

                                                                              Our "reduce" exercise asked students to choose a poster or other project and think about how to "reduce" it. This could mean reducing its size, its color palette, its amount of content, etc. And how can you do that reduction in granular steps. Show us how that reduction plays out. How far can you reduce? do you have to make things at all? What are the impediments to reducing?

                                                                              - Reduce form. - Reduce content. - Reduce colors. - Reduce material. - Reduce energy. - Reduce choices. - Reduce size. - Reduce number of typefaces. - Reduce nodes on a vector path. - Reduce hierarchy. - Reduce [...]

                                                                              Project prompt: Bring a poster you have already designed. The files for the poster are a useful starting place. Iterate through as many kinds of reduction as you can think of. Can you gradually reduce the size of the poster? How small can a poster get before it stops being a poster? Can you gradually reduce the ink coverage? How about the ink colors? Gradually reduce the information/content itself? Create a matrix of reduction to show all the different ways you can literally and figuratively reduce a design. Think about what opportunities this gives you moving forward on this project and in others in the future.

                                                                              (Is minimalism the most "sustainable" aesthetic then?[^minimal])

                                                                                1. R2: Reuse

                                                                              _Strategies for making solutions last longer and finding other uses when finished._ Reuse is a normal process in many fields. As graphic designers however, its not the most common methodology. We chose to apply the idea of material reuse to poster designing. students were asked to bring in old prints and we would make new aphoristic posters with or old work. Reuse focuses on materials in their present state. Reuse is using stuff as it is but for a new purpose. Reuse should constitute less work and less energy than recycling. Reuse ≠ Recycling. What are the impediments to reuse? What can we reuse in design? How can reuse be made conceptually useful? We reuse code all the time in digital projects; why not more 2D formal and visual elements? its not uncommon to reuse typefaces but why not other symbols, pictures, layouts, etc.?

                                                                              Reuse is an interesting idea for a graphic designer: If designer's do make so much waste, as Karrie Jacobs states; then there should always be plenty of physical ephemera to reuse. This also seems to me that it might allow for reduction – if we are making more by hand; certain limitations exist, at least in terms of what is easily reproducible; the quantity of available forms; etc.

                                                                              Project prompt: Bring old prints and posters and mockups to class. Create an aphoristic poster that has a waste = food or other sustainability related message only made from the prints and posters we brought to class. We will literally reuse existing designs for this poster prompt. Make one poster during our time in class; make at least one more on your own outside of class.

                                                                                1. R3: Recycle

                                                                              _Reclaim as much residual value as possible, prevent virgin materials and ideas from being needlessly extracted and used._ The important idea of recycling is that you take a material and return it to its raw state. This is fundamentally different than reuse. It is about getting a material back to a raw state. How does one explore the "raw materials" of graphic design? how does one return a poster or similar to its raw materials? Students collected past projects – visuals, typefaces, etc. – and we shared them all with each other. We then made new aphoristic posters recycling each other's "raw materials." What are the raw materials of a design that can be reclaimed to make design anew? Type? Color? Image? Shape?

                                                                              Return a manufactured, processed material back into a raw material. Recycling implies taking something back to an initial, raw, pure state and then creating fresh, new things from the "renewed" raw material. This can be high energy; high effort. When you can't reduce and you can't reuse then you recycle. It is meant to be a last resort. What are impediments to recycling? Can we make recycling conceptually useful?

                                                                              Project prompt: Create a central, shared folder or repository. Everyone must contribute "waste" digital files left over from past projects to the shared folder. Analyze what's in the folder, and begin to think what the raw forms of the "materials" of our shared folder are – letterforms? color palettes? what? Create an aphoristic poster only made by recycling whatever you want from our shared dump of design "waste."

                                                                                1. Conclusion

                                                                              When you recite the three R's, they are in an intentional order – easiest to hardest; pre- to post-; low input to high input. Reduce should be the initial focus. In our waste = food equation; if we minimize waste; if we reduce waste; do we reduce the opportunity for future creative food? In general, that's probably not a concern since we are already over producing – at least in ways that don't allow for sharing and reuse later. So, we reduce our initial wastefulness. Then the "waste" we do output can be much more easily seen as food instead of trash! Karrie Jacobs was onto something; but maybe she wasn't seeing this opportunity for cultural reuse; creative reuse.

                                                                              Reuse and Recycling are new areas to explore for the average graphic designer. You see reuse a lot in furniture, construction, art. Time to start seeing it in visual designing. Start to understand that waste = food, that everything is connected.

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                                                                              When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. (Christopher alexander again, this time from patter language) <https://onluminousgrounds.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/the-quality-without-a-name-part-one/> ->->->->-> ### Other bits and pieces “how might graphic design be more sustainable in its form, processes, and ideals, not solely materials.” In car and building design choices made regarding fuel efficiency or energy usage have drastic impact on aesthetics. Certain shapes, materials, solutions, etc. must be chosen or omitted. What are graphic design’s corollaries? Should one look for the most energy efficient presses? The most energy efficient printing processes? What effect does that have on the look or feel of a poster? A passive home achieves the same outcomes — walls, roof, kitchen, shelter, storage, sleeping areas, etc. — as a regular home, with similar references (people seeing a picture will know it’s a “house”), but will be more sustainable and have a look and feel in alignment with its ideals. What is the “sustainable” equivalent of say a magazine or advertisement??? Will graphic design look “different” when made by people pondering these things? To make books we fell trees. To power our cities we level mountains. Each act of creation is also an act of destruction. Is this just entropy playing its role — that there is just only so much matter and energy? Or is there something special about how we humans unmake the world around us in the process of societal “progress?” Does sustainable design honestly acknowledge this make/unmake duality? Does sustainability require minimizing the described unmaking? Can newer and more plentiful objects exist without unmaking everything around us? #### What Does Sustainable Graphic Design Look Like? A Thought Experiment with potential answers Modernism (for instance) was not about style for style’s sake, but style illuminating a novel theoretical position; style that was arrived at from a thought process, from a set of values, or from hypothesizing and experimenting. Designing for the welfare of all life is certainly a different mindset from designing for the corporate marketplace... do these things need to then look different? I have seen a few recurring “answers” to the question “What does sustainable graphic design look like?" in my work and work from the field: 1. SGD looks the same. 2. SGD looks eco-friendly. 3. SGD looks innovative. 4. SGD does not exist. - A Pessimistic interpretation? - An Optimistic interpretation? "Sustainable design does not exist" was first a pessimistic "fourth way." Is design all just trash? does design create waste period, so nothing is sustainable? Or, literally, sustainable design is not a thing: anything you are making is unmaking so much else. But! "Sustainable design does not exist" came to signify an alternative vector; it didn't exist because it was ephemeral! because it reused existing objects in a new way! that it left no trace! suddenly this felt like a prompt for new works; new questions! A useful constraint going forward. ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± > Modernism in graphic design has evolved from a progressive and rebellious ideology to a seductive and efficient, yet oppressively ubiquitous, visual language. > — Jerome Harris, Against, yet in the spirit of Modernism, 2019 ## A Bibliography? - De Botton, Alain. _The Architecture of Happiness_. Vintage Books. New York, NY. 2006. - Ehrenfeld, John and Hoffman, Andrew J. _Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability_. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. 2013. - Sterling, Bruce. _The Last Viridian Note_. Nov 2008. ViridianDesign.org. January 2015. <http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008/11/last-viridian-note.html> - Sara de Bondt, Insights Lecture Series, Walker Art Center, 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUMh_UXc_dY> - Bruce Mau reference? - Against but in the spirit of modernism, Jerome Harris / <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ygiodaY40> - Radical Nature, Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, Friday 19 June—Sunday 18 October 2009; Barbican, London. <https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2009/event/radical-nature-art-and-architecture-for-a-changing-planet> - Jerome Harris, Against, but in the Spirit of, Modernist Graphic Design | Jerome Harris | 2019 Core77 Conference <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ygiodaY40> - Towards relational design, Andrew Blauvelt, <https://designobserver.com/feature/towards-relational-design/7557/> - [^3R]: This is also referred to as the "[waste hierarchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_hierarchy)" - [^c2c]: Fully explained in Chapter 4: Waste = Food, pg. 92 from _Cradle to Cradle_ by Michael Braungart and William McDonough, 2002. - [^minimal]: _MINIMALISM: AN OPTIMAL AESTHETIC FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN_ by Irina Sonia CHIM, Ioan BLEBEA

                                                                              A Sustainable Printing Manifesto

                                                                              30th September 2021 at 1:36am
                                                                              Word Count: 178

                                                                              Inspired by Sara De Bondt, “Insights 2014 Design Lecture Series,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US. Co-written by De Bondt and Chris Svensson, 2009. Tweaked by Kristian Bjørnard, 2017.

                                                                              The “YES” column guided many of Ecovention Europe's design decisions.

                                                                              NO

                                                                              • Less than 100% postconsumer recycled paper
                                                                              • Petroleum-based inks
                                                                              • Heavy ink coverage
                                                                              • Spot varnish
                                                                              • Foil blocking
                                                                              • Plastic (substrates, shrink wrapping, bags, etc.)
                                                                              • Laminating
                                                                              • Waste
                                                                              • Glues
                                                                              • Perfect binding
                                                                              • Custom paper sizes
                                                                              • Heavy paper stock
                                                                              • Coated paper
                                                                              • Single sided
                                                                              • Trimming
                                                                              • Bleed
                                                                              • Metallic inks or paints
                                                                              • CMYK
                                                                              • Multi-colour (3, 4, 5, 6+)
                                                                              • Printing abroad
                                                                              • Bigger
                                                                              • More

                                                                              YES

                                                                              • 100% Post-consumer recycled paper
                                                                              • Vegetable-based inks
                                                                              • Light ink coverage
                                                                              • Waterless printing
                                                                              • Digital printing
                                                                              • Blind embossing
                                                                              • Reusing, reducing, recycling, renewing, repairing, reclaiming
                                                                              • Engraving, embossing, diecutting, lasercutting
                                                                              • Staples
                                                                              • Wire-binding
                                                                              • Basically, physical binding and joining methods that can easily be removed/disassembled
                                                                              • Standard paper sizes
                                                                              • Thin paper
                                                                              • Uncoated paper
                                                                              • Double sided
                                                                              • Black & white
                                                                              • One colour
                                                                              • Two colours (In general, the fewer colours the better…) » See Use Less Ink
                                                                              • Local printers
                                                                              • Smaller
                                                                              • Less
                                                                              • Print on Demand

                                                                              Abeer Seikaly

                                                                              23rd August 2021 at 3:04pm
                                                                              Word Count: 125
                                                                              People Doing People Things

                                                                              Designer, Thinker, Curator, Sustainabilitist?

                                                                              Has an interesting way to organize projects on website, lists as a list of questions...

                                                                              • Can industry and nature fruitfully coexist?
                                                                              • How can cultural heritage remain relevant within a globalised society?
                                                                              • What is a ‘Home’?
                                                                              • How is modernity affecting the way we live and interact with the natural world?
                                                                              • How does design influence our social responsibilities?
                                                                              • Can we reimagine the role of craft in technological processes?
                                                                              • Can empathy create new material constructions?
                                                                              • Is architecture a social technology?
                                                                              • How does memory become artifact?
                                                                              • What does it mean to be an artist in the digital age?
                                                                              • How does art bridge cultural divides?
                                                                              • How does the intangible, like a fleeting but unforgotten memory, become tangible?
                                                                              • How can typologies of our past shape the future?

                                                                              About Us Everybody World R. Buckminster Fuller Broadside

                                                                              16th June 2021 at 12:23am
                                                                              Word Count: 16
                                                                              Image Quote

                                                                              Accidental Hierarchy

                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
                                                                              Word Count: 13

                                                                              By putting things in a list you create a hierarchy, purposefully or not!

                                                                              Outbound

                                                                                adaptive reuse

                                                                                23rd June 2021 at 4:52pm
                                                                                Word Count: 48
                                                                                Definition

                                                                                Figuring out clever ways to reuse existing materials, structures, etc. And not just in the present, but clever ways that allow continuous and future reuse. We don't know exactly what the future will bring, so our choices now for "adapting" can't hinder future adaptations as well.

                                                                                Additional Plugins to Investigate?

                                                                                18th June 2021 at 10:25am
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                                                                                ReadMe tiddlyWiki

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                                                                                  Additional Questionnaires to Oneself

                                                                                  9th August 2021 at 2:03pm
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                                                                                  Adjacent Possibles

                                                                                  12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                  Big Ideas Definition

                                                                                  As you make your way through the Futures Cone, some interesting things start to happen. If you start steering for points further and further out from the Projected or the Probable as the vector of moves in that new direction, what was once preposterous enters now newly defined possible or even projected "cones" … So, having far out ideas CREATEs new possibles as the futures cone evolves and adapts to where we are "now" …

                                                                                  How else to explain this???

                                                                                  Adobe

                                                                                  23rd June 2021 at 11:08pm
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                                                                                  Purveyor of all manner of cultural creation tools. The anti F/LOS

                                                                                  Tagged with Adobe

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                                                                                  Aeon

                                                                                  8th July 2021 at 4:38pm
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                                                                                  Aeon.co

                                                                                  Particularly useful series:

                                                                                  Aesthetics

                                                                                  5th July 2021 at 1:30pm
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                                                                                  What is the definition of this word?

                                                                                  Used in so many different ways.

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                                                                                    Aesthetics That Convince

                                                                                    22nd July 2021 at 3:45pm
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                                                                                    AfterEffects

                                                                                    23rd June 2021 at 11:07pm
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                                                                                    Adobe Software

                                                                                    Motion graphics software from Adobe

                                                                                    Against Creativity

                                                                                    20th June 2021 at 2:10am
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                                                                                    Book Source Tsundoku

                                                                                    Agility

                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                    Definition Principle

                                                                                    Change must happen fast—but raw speed alone is not enough. The rapid growth of industrialism got us into this mess; quick, precise and nimble actions now will get us out of it.

                                                                                    Air Pollution

                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:11pm
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                                                                                    Typically thought of as airborne substances harmful to humans. Historically this has been seen as toxins, poisons, carcinogens, visible immediate "pollution." But, it is coming to mean greenhouse gases.

                                                                                    Al Gore

                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:31pm
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                                                                                    People Doing People Things

                                                                                    Alain de Botton

                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:31pm
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                                                                                    People Doing People Things Philosophy

                                                                                    aliases for a tiddler

                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 12:33am
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                                                                                    tiddlyWiki

                                                                                    Is there a way to make aliases for a tiddler title? do you just do that by writing custom text and then still linking it to a tiddler?

                                                                                    Alice Rawsthorn

                                                                                    23rd June 2021 at 10:37am
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                                                                                    People Doing People Things

                                                                                    One of my favorite design authors.

                                                                                    All [designs] are predictions; all predictions are wrong.

                                                                                    14th July 2021 at 11:37pm
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                                                                                      All design does three things…

                                                                                      20th August 2021 at 9:33pm
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                                                                                      Design, When Everybody Designs note

                                                                                      All design:

                                                                                      1. acts on the physical world
                                                                                      2. addresses human need
                                                                                      3. generates the built environment

                                                                                      DWED pviii ¶5 L3

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                                                                                        All design is ideological

                                                                                        15th July 2021 at 11:02pm
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                                                                                        Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (Dunne & Raby) write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.” If our world view is the welfare of all life, then how does that shift what and how we graphic design?

                                                                                        All goods and services are designed

                                                                                        20th August 2021 at 9:37pm
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                                                                                        all humans and other life should flourish

                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 11:13pm
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                                                                                        All you need to know to be Confident

                                                                                        22nd June 2021 at 10:57am
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                                                                                        Confidence Quote
                                                                                        Author

                                                                                        All you need to know:

                                                                                        Becoming more confident doesn’t mean eliminating fear from your life, it means learning to live with your fear. Build the right habits and you can learn to speak and act with confidence no matter how you feel.

                                                                                        • Accept your fear instead of running away from it.
                                                                                        • Communicate your wants and needs assertively.
                                                                                        • Make decisions based on values, not feelings.
                                                                                        • Be compassionate with yourself after mistakes.

                                                                                        Nick Wignall

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                                                                                          Almost everything we engage with is a commodity

                                                                                          13th August 2021 at 3:22pm
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                                                                                          What is Capitalism?

                                                                                          ¶9 L3

                                                                                          we are now at a point in society where almost everything we engage with is a commodity

                                                                                          Alternative Futures

                                                                                          23rd June 2021 at 11:02pm
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                                                                                          Alternative Possibles

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                                                                                          Amager Bakke Vapor Ring

                                                                                          27th August 2021 at 11:28pm
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                                                                                          An Idea: Signs Signaling Sustainability Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                          A concept that was never made due to some weird problems; but that sent me down this direction: The Copenhagen waste to energy plant is so clean its exhaust stack puffs only CO2 and water vapor. (Its also a public ski hill and hiking mountain) Upon capturing 1 ton of CO2, exhausts it as a smoke ring. Help you visualize this otherwise intangible aspect of sustainability!? (Bjarke Ingels Group)

                                                                                          (FACT CHECK NOTES FROM ISABEL!?)

                                                                                          Images? what else?

                                                                                          Amanda Buck

                                                                                          23rd June 2021 at 5:24pm
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                                                                                          People Doing People Things Personal Friend

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                                                                                            Ambient Music

                                                                                            5th July 2021 at 1:31pm
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                                                                                            Music that is meant to be part of the space in which it is heard; it is for helping to create ambience? helping to create moods or feelings, less about rhythm and melody and more about feeling?

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                                                                                              An economy for the 99%

                                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:24pm
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                                                                                              It’s time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few

                                                                                              An Essay: A Definition

                                                                                              19th June 2021 at 12:11am
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                                                                                              Short, Interesting, to the Truth.

                                                                                              An example: Selecting a font

                                                                                              27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                              Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                              Does a font’s appearance matter as much as the energy and material and social ills it saves? Is selecting a font that uses minimal ink the best way to select a font? Would a font that is condensed, that uses up less space (saving paper over a print run; exposure to chemicals to the printer) be better? Can we combine the these? The thinest, most condensed, lightest ink coverage font is the most sustainable? This can easily be taken absurd lengths.

                                                                                              This is useful for critiquing design choices; it tackles outcomes from a resource perspective; can show a different "visual languages;" but does it embrace “the welfare of all life?”

                                                                                              An Explanation

                                                                                              19th July 2021 at 1:57pm
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                                                                                              Essays GDMFA
                                                                                              Written from
                                                                                              Baltimore, Maryland, MFA Studio

                                                                                              My work revolves around inserting sustainability into my design practice. In attempting to create what I would like to call “Sustainable Graphic Design” I have had many different stops and starts. I have done things as simple as diagram my carbon footprint and the world's oil reserves to the writing of essays and rants on the subject. The pieces represented in my exhibition only scratch the surface as to what I have investigated, contemplated and designed over my time as a graduate student. My works are different ways of spreading the myriad messages of sustainability without preachiness or condescension. The goal I set for myself has always been to create a simpler understanding of the topic, while making it friendlier, yet still serious. What started out as a simple attempt to uncover an aesthetic for the realm of the sustainable ended up a diverse body of work encompassing many different media.

                                                                                              The first experiments I completed focused purely on visual ideas of sustainability. After a short round of aimless inquiries I came up with the question What does sustainable Graphic Design look like? and hoped to answer it with further visual study. I was documenting ideas, thought and quotes I came across relating to sustainability in general and its understanding at large. But as these works continued I began to grow tired of them. The pieces were simply aesthetic experimentation—superficial attempts to answer my questions. They were not pushing my design in any new directions, they were simply collections of nicely styled data and information. Nothing about my early work completely adopted in and of itself the principles of sustainability I was uncovering.

                                                                                              The Greenest Green, Understanding Sustainability, and A Sustainable Landscape all came from this period, and were subsequently refined into the gallery state. The Greenest Green is a randomly curated batch of green, sustainable and green-washed companies. The goal was to present all these different organizations, companies and brands next to each other and at least get viewers considering how Walmart and The National Wildlife Defense Fund might be somehow related—or not related at all. Visually it is truly a sampling as the green color in the center, itself named the greenest green, is an average of the CMYK values in all colors used in the collection of logos. What I was really trying to do was come up with a less arbitrary way of devising a color to use in some of my other works. This piece ends up being not much more than an inconclusive commentary on the state of greenwashing.

                                                                                              The diagrams in the Understanding Sustainability pair of prints are refinements and explanations for a variety of similar diagrams to be found online and in texts attempting to simplify the complexity of sustainability into single visuals. These started life as fairly simple sketches in a notebook while I was reading one afternoon. I thought I had stumbled upon something unique and brilliantly simple. I soon found however that these diagrams existed in a multitude of other places and forms. However, my final iterations raise the level of these diagrams from simple visuals into fairly useful tools in explaining and describing how sustainability can work.

                                                                                              The last piece to end up in the gallery from my initial explorations is the work A Sustainable Landscape. This began as an exercise in the development of systems and toolkits for creating design. All of the forms were created from a small subset of lines and geometric shapes. These shapes were combined into trees, buildings and people and then subsequently combined into a little world. Part of the piece will be in disseminating the digital files through the internet and attempting to collect additional forms created by others. The stable of forms can be continually increased as others add their vision of sustainability to the kit of parts. When printed for the gallery installation A Sustainable Landscape used the end of a paper roll leftover from printing my own and my peers other thesis works. The bends, creases and scuff marks on the paper are the visual truths to this re-use—normally these last few feet of a roll are useless to those wanting “perfect” prints.

                                                                                              I was next led to start more writing and intensified my reading and research into the philosophies at the root of sustainability. The more I read and wrote however, the more I felt that I could not justify actually creating physical objects as part of my practice. It seemed too much of a material waste. Here I was looking at ways to reduce consumption and improve the materiality of the goods we actually create and I wanted to print posters and make booklets out of ink and paper. I felt like a hypocrite. However, venturing further into the realm of the purely written word made me feel no less lost. (see: Sustainable Graphic Design Does Not Exist.)

                                                                                              Having spent quite a lot of time trying to verbally describe where sustainability exists, I wanted to reference how we already understand our world and individual lives. This created several new directions. Some simple diagrams describing the complexity that is the sustainable world were refined thanks to this extra time spent musing (The Greenest Green and Understanding Sustainability [a diptych]). What also came from my attempts at making “nothing” were my final two gallery pieces. I had a better understanding of what I wanted to create, and set out to make objects that better embodied the principles I kept seeing repeat in my research. Anything I made moving forward had to either re-used existing materials, or else coalesce from what I already had, become objects in my installation, and then return to their former lives once the gallery show ended. I managed to do this in my last two pieces.

                                                                                              Hello, My Name Is… was an effort to make the messages of sustainability less condescending and more facile for uptake by a still fairly unfamiliar public. If the phrasing and communication of sustainability's ideals can be made more palatable, more understandable, easier or friendlier we will have a better chance at succeeding in its implementation. The work also was the first that re-used a material. All of the prints were made over an existing publication done in collaboration with the rest of my Graphic Design MFA peers. The pages were cut down just enough to fit through a laser-printer and the typography was over-printed on top of the existing designs. This was able to combine both the written messaging I was presenting as well as the principle of “re-use.” A step forward was made. In producing the piece I was also forced to make design decisions based on the constraints of my existing materials. To properly overprint my new text I had to put the typography into large black boxes and knock the text out to the page color to make everything legible. Using this constraint took away some of the other aesthetic choices I may have made purely subjectively and forced a pragmatic solution. I would like more of my work to take this direction.

                                                                                              In the end my thinking on the topic of sustainability has been influenced by a huge quantity of things. The piece The Sustainabilitist Principles managed to coalesce these many ideas and practices into one synergistic piece. The objects used in the sculpture were existing objects I had or found, and are able to go back to their original state upon completion of the installation. The piece used all the books I had collected for my research. a found bookshelf, books from a book exchange that were turned into plaques (these will simply be returned to the book exchange), as well as several meters of embroidery floss (while new, this can still be reused for other work or necessity—maybe I'll take up embroidery).

                                                                                              The principles that I found important did not appear in every text I read on sustainability. Interconnections had to be spawned through my own investigation. From this web of ideals I created my own sustainable commandments and my own “bible” from which they come. My sustainability bible is an entire bookshelf, composed of 23 different books (and growing) by different authors in different times. Each book covers different topics, ethics, arenas of action and fundamentals. Together they provide fairly broad coverage that relates sustainability to our lives and design. Through the piece I have done the investigative work for the viewer, present them with the principles I find most useful, and provide them with the tools to further research those if they so desire.

                                                                                              Having finished with my exhibition and graduate coursework I keep asking myself how I can continue to grow these ideas and processes. How do I keep creating work, and yet not have to consume more and more material? Part of my installation was being able to uptake some of the waste from my other processes and print runs. This model only works if there continues to be a steady stream of waste to re-use—it requires a consumption driven society to live in symbioses with.

                                                                                              Something that keeps running through my head that may allow me to do this longer term on a professional scale is to try and further de-materialize my design practice. I will pose a new question to myself: how do I stop needing to use materials in the creation of my work? I can migrate more and more of my ideas and projects to the web—but the virtual world seems like the easy way out. I am interested in still creating physical objects. If my The Sustainabilitist Principles is any indicator, I believe I can find a way to keep creating visual work and graphic design that simply uptake existing pieces, uses them for what is required, and returns them to their original use or even into another work once finished.

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                                                                                              An Idea: Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                              27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                              Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021) Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                              Instead of what does sustainable graphic design look like then, a more important question is what values underpin your sustainable graphic design? Or, what values does your sustainable graphic design signal out to the world?

                                                                                              How does your design makes tangible, makes understandable, something about sustainability?

                                                                                              This is doable no matter the project; no matter the prompt. There are myriad aspects of climate change and sustainability one might signal. Each even in their tiniest part we can think of as contributing to "all life flourishing."

                                                                                              This is another opportunity to find the context for which "beauty" exists in a design without resorting to superficial, external styling. We can focus on values or ethics in the unique contexts of each new project.

                                                                                              Amager Bakke Vapor Ring

                                                                                              A concept that was never made due to some weird problems; but that sent me down this direction: The Copenhagen waste to energy plant is so clean its exhaust stack puffs only CO2 and water vapor. (Its also a public ski hill and hiking mountain) Upon capturing 1 ton of CO2, exhausts it as a smoke ring. Help you visualize this otherwise intangible aspect of sustainability!? (Bjarke Ingels Group)

                                                                                              (FACT CHECK NOTES FROM ISABEL!?)

                                                                                              Images? what else?

                                                                                              Reverberation Crosswalks

                                                                                              Reverberation Crosswalks are fun, brightly colored crosswalks. Just paint on cement and asphalt they still signal a sustainable vector forward. The neighborhood around this intersection is now more walkable. You can't not notice the crosswalks. They contribute to life flourishing in the city. This concept is cheap; fast; easily replicated; can be customized for region, culture, available materials, etc. (Graham Coreil Allen)

                                                                                              solar.lowtechmagazine.com

                                                                                              Low Tech Magazine's solar powered website signals how we might visualize energy usage; how we might enable new systems of powering our tools; questions if we really need constant connection; and how aesthetic choices correlate to physical resources even in the digital sphere. (Kris De Decker & Marie Otsuka)

                                                                                              DC High Water Mark Project

                                                                                              The DC water mark project visualizes increased flooding and water level rise. The water level rings articulate "oh shit, this place might be underwater pretty frequently given our current projected future!" By signaling this, perhaps we can act accordingly and redirect our present towards a future where that is no longer true. Without _seeing_ your house or office or favorite park area submerged, even symbolically, you cannot envision an alternative. (Curry J. Hackett / Wayside Studio)

                                                                                              Tattfoo Tan, *S.O.S. Steward*

                                                                                              Enrolled in various courses and acquired certification for sustainable/green knowledge. To flaunt new found titles, created merit patches to be worn on gray coveralls during events and gardening sessions. <http://tattfoo.com/sos/SOSGreenStewardship.html> (Tattfoo Tan & S.O.S. Steward)

                                                                                              Cradle To Cradle

                                                                                              The cradle to cradle books are signs signaling sustainability. C2C is a "technical" nutrient — the entire book is made to be taken back into a production process — the pages are plastic, the ink reclaimable. The Upcycle is instead a biological nutrient, made to decompose and return to the cycles of nature. Paper, ink, binding, is all made to biodegrade… This fully signals the ideology of Cradle to Cradle. (Michael Braungart and William McDonough (with the design Paul Sahre))

                                                                                              Andrew Shea

                                                                                              23rd June 2021 at 11:01pm
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                                                                                              Designer, Professor.

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                                                                                                Andy Hamilton's necessary condition for design

                                                                                                17th August 2021 at 6:24pm
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                                                                                                note The Philosophy of Design

                                                                                                Designs involve constructions where the visual or sonic appearance or feel is important [...] design contains an ineliminable aesthetic component. (Hamilton 2011, 57)

                                                                                                (TPOD p19 ¶3 L4)

                                                                                                Hamilton's text this came from is: Hamilton, A. (2011) The aesthetics of design. In J. Wolfendale, J. Kennett and F. Allhoff (eds.) Fashion: Philosophy for Everyone, Thinking with Style. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 53–69

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                                                                                                  Another's Sustainabilitist Principles

                                                                                                  2nd November 2021 at 2:37pm
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                                                                                                  principles exist as a whole, so it's not a good idea to prioritize one principle over the others, such as prioritizing minimalism over durability and efficiency.

                                                                                                  How does this relate/map to my The Sustainabilitist Manifesto & The Sustainabilitist Principles

                                                                                                  Any design that exists which promotes the flourishing of nature’s interconnected systems is sustainable design

                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 11:14pm
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                                                                                                  The French writer Stendahl states: “there are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.” Perhaps sustainable graphic design must take it’s cue from this. Any design that exists which promotes the flourishing of nature’s interconnected systems is sustainable design. That doesn’t require a particular style, material, methodology, or typeface  —  just the right ideals and messages.

                                                                                                  April Greiman

                                                                                                  22nd June 2021 at 10:54am
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                                                                                                  People Doing People Things

                                                                                                  Designer, Artist, innovator.

                                                                                                  Architecture

                                                                                                  22nd July 2021 at 11:30pm
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                                                                                                    Ask more Questions

                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 2:11pm
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                                                                                                    Don't worry about solving problems

                                                                                                    Ask people what they don’t want

                                                                                                    26th July 2021 at 12:51pm
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                                                                                                    Getting Real user survey

                                                                                                    Bad Design

                                                                                                    5th July 2021 at 1:32pm
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                                                                                                    If a design isn't sustainable, then it is Bad.

                                                                                                    current Status Quo Design

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                                                                                                      Balance = variation + complexity

                                                                                                      13th August 2021 at 2:44pm
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                                                                                                      note Quote Spontaneity and Utopia

                                                                                                      What ecology has shown is that balance in nature is achieved by organic variation and complexity, not by homogeneity and simplification.

                                                                                                      Base Load

                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                      Energy Security Renewable Energy

                                                                                                      Base Load Power is an Out of Date Concept

                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                        BauErden

                                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 8:44pm
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                                                                                                        BauHaus Educational Model Essays Manifesto

                                                                                                        BauErden — Build earth!

                                                                                                        The ultimate aim of design must be restoring ​harmony in the carbon cycle. No longer can we produce ​meaningless prints, tchotchkes, devices, apps, objects, and software. ​ No design may be created without first asking “does this need to exist?” and/or “does this help drawn down carbon from the atmosphere?” and/or “does this re-balance natural systems?”

                                                                                                        We need the conscious​, cooperative effort of all artists, designers, politicians, craftspeople, scientists, farmers, etc. Our new design Education must aid in this. How might a new pedagogical approach focus on the liminal; designers as connectors.

                                                                                                        Designers must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of “climate” (climate(s) [natural, social, etc.?]? the climate? the earth? nature?) as a holistic entity AND in its separate, interconnected parts. Only then will our designing be imbued with the spirit it has lost as mere servant of capitalism.

                                                                                                        Old styles and models for designing​ are not capable of producing the required new unity. New styles, new ways of working of making of seeing are required.​

                                                                                                        We must merge design with the workshop, the science lab, the forest, the internet, the ocean depths, the lecture hall, the meadow, the studio, and the public square. Designers must be the nexus of connection between all interests and needs. Our client is our climate. Our goals: drawing down carbon, the welfare of all life, and the restoration of spaceship earth.

                                                                                                        Good luck.

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                                                                                                        BauErden (020210409)

                                                                                                        27th August 2021 at 11:52pm
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                                                                                                        BauErden Lecture Nebraska Senior Seminar

                                                                                                        BauErden » Build Earth

                                                                                                        Earthstronauts:

                                                                                                        The ultimate aim of design must be restoring ​harmony in the carbon cycle. No longer can we produce ​meaningless prints, tchotchkes, devices, apps, and objects. Designs cannot be created without first asking: “does this need to exist?” — “does this help drawn down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?” — “does this re-balance our natural systems?”

                                                                                                        We need the conscious​, cooperative effort of all artists, designers, politicians, craftspeople, scientists, farmers, parents, small business owners, teachers, plumbers… A new design education must aid in this endeavor. How might new pedagogical approaches focus on the liminal — on designers as connectors for these different constituencies? For everything is connected.

                                                                                                        Designers must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of “climate” as a holistic entity AND in its separate, interconnected parts (climate(s): natural? social? _the_ planetary climate? the earth? the universe? Local climates? Micro climates?). Only then will our designs be re-imbued with the spirit lost as mere servant of capitalism.

                                                                                                        Old styles and models for designing​ are not capable of producing the required new unity. Abandon them. New styles, new processes, new working ways, new making methods, and new seeing systems are required.​

                                                                                                        We shall merge design with the workshop, the science lab, the forest, the internet, the ocean depths, the car park, the lecture hall, the bus stop, the meadow, and the public square. Designers must be the nexus between present interests and needs and tomorrow's utopian possibilities.

                                                                                                        Our client is our climate. Our goals: drawing down carbon dioxide, the welfare of all life, and the restoration of spaceship earth.

                                                                                                        Good luck.

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                                                                                                          BauHaus

                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 3:59pm
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                                                                                                          Educational Model

                                                                                                          Be myself and say what is on my mind.

                                                                                                          25th August 2021 at 10:17am
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                                                                                                          I don't have to do anything other than be myslef and say what is on my mind. I may or may not be interesting to you — that's fine.

                                                                                                          Maira Kalman

                                                                                                          From Episode 15 of 70 over 70 — Shirley Ross and Scott Kalin share the joy, the little annoyances, and the responsibilities that come with having a good roommate. Then Max talks with artist Maira Kalman about how she discovered a newfound sense of herself during the pandemic and why she’s no longer looking for answers to life’s biggest mysteries at age 72.

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                                                                                                            Be-Do-Have

                                                                                                            22nd July 2021 at 11:25pm
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                                                                                                            Jason Abraham Philosophy

                                                                                                            020210311131133 Entry

                                                                                                            Be - Do - Have

                                                                                                            vs Have-Do-Be ?

                                                                                                            First we “be” what we want (peaceful, loving, inspired, abundant, successful, or whatever), then we start “doing” things from this state of being – and soon we discover that what we’re doing winds up bringing us the things we’ve always wanted to “have.”

                                                                                                            https://mike-robbins.com/be-do-have/

                                                                                                            related to Invest in the Process?

                                                                                                            Be-Do-Have is a thought process, a mindset

                                                                                                            Beautiful things ARE sustainable things

                                                                                                            19th July 2021 at 1:35pm
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                                                                                                            Sustainability and Beauty

                                                                                                            In The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton provides some insights useful in trying to solve aesthetic quandaries around sustainability and formal beauty. Beautiful design embodies and sustains the values you hold dear.

                                                                                                            Following Botton’s thinking, sustainable designers should see the non-sustainable as the less-than beautiful, even the ugly. Only truly sustainable things — meaning objects and forms that inspire sustainable ideals — should count as beautiful. Beautiful things ARE sustainable things, and vice versa.

                                                                                                            Because digital books are software, an author shouldn’t think of a book as merely data. The book is a program.

                                                                                                            14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                              Becoming Wise with Krista Tippett

                                                                                                              22nd August 2021 at 12:01am
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                                                                                                              Becoming Wise with broadcaster and author Krista Tippett. What does it mean to be human? And how do we want to live? Krista Tippett is one of America’s most renowned broadcasters. She explores the enduring question of what it is to be human, and how we can learn to live with greater, joy, compassion and wisdom, both individually and collectively.

                                                                                                              Becoming Wise with Krista Tippett. Join award-winning broadcaster and author Krista Tippett at the RSA to explore the enduring question of what it is to be human, and how we can learn to live with greater, joy, compassion and wisdom, both individually and collectively.

                                                                                                              With Elizabeth Oldfield of Theos

                                                                                                              Being intentional about the content we consume is an act of freedom

                                                                                                              22nd July 2021 at 11:55pm
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                                                                                                              Quote Source Web

                                                                                                              A knowledge worker's most precious tool is their mind. The same way we take care of our body through a healthy diet and exercise, we need to take care of our mind through a healthy content consumption and proactive thinking. Only then can we hope to generate new ideas.

                                                                                                              Ben Hart

                                                                                                              9th August 2021 at 5:05pm
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                                                                                                              People Doing People Things Personal Friend

                                                                                                              Engineer, Merchant Marine, generally amazing person, works at GE, really cares about sustainability.

                                                                                                              Benefits vs Problems

                                                                                                              6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                              How We're F-ed The Dissatisfaction Game The Sustainabilitist

                                                                                                              We are perpetually dissatisfied

                                                                                                              We see the benefits of our goals with out seeing the problems or the sacrifices of the goals.

                                                                                                              Samsara

                                                                                                              Big Ideas

                                                                                                              12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                              So many big ideas. what to do with them all? how to turn them into reality!?

                                                                                                              BioDiesel

                                                                                                              23rd June 2021 at 5:02pm
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                                                                                                              Definition

                                                                                                              A traditional Petroleum Diesel equivalent made from plant and animal oil sources. Frequently made from Soy, Canola, and other commerical vegetable oils. Can be made from waste oil as well.

                                                                                                              I don't completely remember the science, but you take oils, you start with triglycerides, and through transesterification – mixing with alcohol in some steps – end up with long-chain fatty acid esters; this is the biodiesel... and glycerin as the "waste"? something like that...

                                                                                                              Biomimicry

                                                                                                              25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                Bjarke Ingles

                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 3:52pm
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                                                                                                                People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                Black Mountain College

                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 2:13pm
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                                                                                                                Educational Model

                                                                                                                Learn more about this.

                                                                                                                An amazing Art School model. Wonderful ideas for Pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy, Empowerment Education...

                                                                                                                Students were workers, farmers, Collaborators

                                                                                                                Blueprint for a Counter Education

                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 3:52pm
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                                                                                                                Educational Model Source

                                                                                                                Book

                                                                                                                28th July 2021 at 2:54am
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                                                                                                                What makes a book a book? when does a book go from being a random pile of loose pages to a book?

                                                                                                                Tea Uglow has some cool thoughts on this...

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                                                                                                                Braiding Sweetgrass

                                                                                                                15th June 2021 at 12:09pm
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                                                                                                                Brian Eno

                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 3:53pm
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                                                                                                                People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                One of my heroes.

                                                                                                                Part of Long Now Foundation, Ambient Music, Oblique Strategies, and so much more.

                                                                                                                Bring to Office Tomorrow

                                                                                                                1st July 2021 at 11:14am
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                                                                                                                TeuxDeux
                                                                                                                • [ ] HDMI adapter
                                                                                                                • [ ] USB C adpater to regular USB
                                                                                                                • [ ] Ethernet adapter?

                                                                                                                Maybe also order a bunch more of the kinds of plugs and adapters I need for life? Or at least sort through the bins at home and see what I can refind?

                                                                                                                Bruce Mau

                                                                                                                20th June 2021 at 2:35am
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                                                                                                                People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                Bruce Sterling

                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 3:53pm
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                                                                                                                People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                Science fiction autor and design critic

                                                                                                                Bruce Sterling: How To Be Futuristic

                                                                                                                2nd August 2021 at 1:16pm
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                                                                                                                A salon talk by Bruce Sterling

                                                                                                                The future is a kind of history that hasn’t happened yet. The past is a kind of future that has already happened. The present moment vanishes before it can be described. Language, a human invention, lacks the power to fully adhere to reality.

                                                                                                                We live in a very short now and here, since the flow of events in spacetime is mostly closed to human comprehension. But we have to say something about the future, since we have to live there. So what can we say? Being “futuristic” is a problem in metaphysics; it’s about getting language to adhere to an unknowable reality. But the futuristic quickly becomes old-fashioned, so how can the news stay news?

                                                                                                                Bruce Sterling is a futurist, journalist, science-fiction author, and culture critic. He is the author of more than 20 books including ground-breaking science ficiton and non-fiction about hackers, design and the future. He was the editor in 01986 of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) which brought the cyberpunk science fiction sub-genre to a much wider audience. He previous spoke for Long Now about "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole" in 02004. His Beyond the Beyond blog on Wired.com is now in its 15th year. His most recent book is Pirate Utopia.

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                                                                                                                  Bruce Sterlings Criteria For Keeping Objects

                                                                                                                  19th July 2021 at 2:56pm
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                                                                                                                  Sustainability and Beauty
                                                                                                                  1. Beautiful Things
                                                                                                                  2. Sentimental Things
                                                                                                                  3. Utilitarian Things
                                                                                                                  4. Everything else.

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                                                                                                                    BRUNDTLAND COMMISION, 1987.

                                                                                                                    22nd July 2021 at 12:48am
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                                                                                                                    Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

                                                                                                                    Build Less

                                                                                                                    26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                    Driving Concepts Getting Real Less Software

                                                                                                                    less means:

                                                                                                                    • Less features
                                                                                                                    • Less options/preferences
                                                                                                                    • Less people and corporate structure
                                                                                                                    • Less meetings and abstractions
                                                                                                                    • Less promises

                                                                                                                    https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.1-build-less

                                                                                                                    Build products that do less

                                                                                                                    26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                    Getting Real Less Software Quote

                                                                                                                    Instead of trying to build products that do more, we build products that do less.

                                                                                                                    • Less software is easier to manage.
                                                                                                                    • Less software reduces your codebase and that means
                                                                                                                    • less maintenance busywork (and a happier staff).
                                                                                                                    • Less software lowers your cost of change so you can adapt quickly. You can change your mind without having to change boatloads of code.
                                                                                                                    • Less software results in fewer bugs.
                                                                                                                    • Less software means less support.

                                                                                                                    https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/10.1-less-software

                                                                                                                    Build software for general concepts and encourage people to create their own solutions

                                                                                                                    26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                    Getting Real

                                                                                                                    Build something you can manage

                                                                                                                    26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                    Getting Real

                                                                                                                    Byron Anway

                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 3:54pm
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                                                                                                                    People Doing People Things Personal Friend

                                                                                                                    Friend and artistic colleague. Musician, hunter, and parent. Also from Northfield MN

                                                                                                                    Calvin Hutcheon

                                                                                                                    8th October 2021 at 5:12pm
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                                                                                                                    Can industry and nature fruitfully coexist?

                                                                                                                    23rd August 2021 at 3:01pm
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                                                                                                                    Prompt

                                                                                                                    inspired by Abeer Seikaly

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                                                                                                                    CAPE

                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:46pm
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                                                                                                                    Pure Content

                                                                                                                    Capitalism

                                                                                                                    13th August 2021 at 2:34pm
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                                                                                                                    Definition

                                                                                                                    Gilbert describes capitalism as:

                                                                                                                    “a situation in which private individuals or corporations are allowed to use any means available to them – short of openly violent coercion – to accumulate vast profits from the sale of commodities, even if, in the process, they are paying workers very low wages, wrecking the local environment, or forcing people to change their way of life against their will.”

                                                                                                                    from Jeremy Gilbert, in his recent book Twenty-First Century Socialism & What is Capitalism?

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                                                                                                                      Carbon

                                                                                                                      6th July 2021 at 12:08am
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                                                                                                                      One of the most abundant elements on our planet. I combines to make all kinds of things. The hardest substance: diamond, and one of the softest, graphite. With other elements it makes all the different components we need for life on earth...

                                                                                                                      Key piece of Carbon Dioxide; all Fossil Fuels, etc.

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                                                                                                                      carbon negative

                                                                                                                      23rd June 2021 at 5:17pm
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                                                                                                                      Definition

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                                                                                                                        carbon neutral

                                                                                                                        23rd June 2021 at 4:54pm
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                                                                                                                          Carbon Sink

                                                                                                                          22nd June 2021 at 10:24am
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                                                                                                                          Any object, location, device, process, etc. to store CO2 for extended periods of time

                                                                                                                          Cargo Bikes

                                                                                                                          6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                          Fuck Cars The Sustainabilitist Utopian Gestures

                                                                                                                          Case Study: Ecovention Europe

                                                                                                                          30th September 2021 at 1:37am
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                                                                                                                          020210924002918 Ideas Ecovention Europe Print on Demand

                                                                                                                          Ecovention Europe was a book produced with curator Sue Spaid for an exhibition of the same name at Museum De Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst. The publication gives an overview of Ecologically inventive artists working in Europe over the last 60 years.

                                                                                                                          The book is a sequel of sorts to Green Acres, also produced with Sue Spaid. In the interim between the two projects — GA and EE — I heard designer Sara de Bondt discuss the Radical Nature catalog her studio designed for the Barbican in London* . De Bondt's studio ended up writing a sustainable printing manifesto as part of their research for the catalog's production. De Bondt's "manifesto" reminded me about all the various constraints that might help to frame design decisions: How might I re-examine the design choices of Green Acres through some new constraints? Could I improve the sustainability (and the sustainable aesthetics) for Ecovention Europe? This seemed like a good time to put ideas like Reuse and Reduce into play amongst other things.

                                                                                                                          One of the items in De Bondt's printing manifesto is "use less ink." I decided this meant selecting colors more carefully for this project. The palette of Ecovention Europe uses no colors that adds up to more that 100% ink coverage. (Ecovention Europe uses CMYK: and color palette swatches start at 100% pure C, M, Y, or K, and then are mixed in equal percentages to keep 100% or less total coverage: 50% + 50%; 33% + 33% + 33%; etc.). This resulted in a color palette that was fairly specific to this book. Reducing ink coverage also led to a specific graphic solution, bitmapped city aerial photos as the decorative section markers. In Green Acres I had used full bleed aerial photos across and entire two page spread as a section break. For Ecovention Europe we kept a similar concept, an aerial map, but didn't bleed the images AND made them bitmaps with much less "filled" area. Much less ink is used for each section break comparatively to the solution from Green Acres.

                                                                                                                          On a similar Reduce thread, the text columns in Green Acres ended at full paragraphs breaks to make editing easier. This gave a formally-nice rhythm to text columns, but it was an inefficient use of space. With Ecovention Europe, I reduced this space by running all the text the full column heights. This had the secondary benefit of minimizing superfluous decoration: In Green Acres, superficial decorative elements filled those blanks left by text columns ending mid-page. So, less overall pages needed for an equivalent amount of text, AND again, a reduction in overall ink.

                                                                                                                          I even tried to reduce decision making through Reuse. The page size and page grid for Green Acres had a lot of conceptual reasoning invested into it, and so I reused the page templates, type choices, grid setup, etc. as yet another way to "reduce" resources — time, energy saved, even if just mental energy.

                                                                                                                          As a final conclusion to Ecovention Europe, Sue thought it would be good to include this thinking in the book itself, so the final page of EE is an attempt at explaining the ideas that went into its production.

                                                                                                                          As a conceptual exercise, this was great. But, did it make much of a difference? How could this be done differently and improved upon again next time? Is there an alternative to making this book at all? (Should this exist? I didn’t ask that question before we began!)

                                                                                                                          The book itself was printed by a digital on demand printer in europe, printed in a limited quantity with little material and labor wasted for setup. Books do not need to be stored, and at some point, if reuired, it is easy to get more copies of the book.

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                                                                                                                          On the design of Ecovention Europe

                                                                                                                          Two of the common “3R’s” — reuse and reduce — were important to the design of this book.

                                                                                                                          Reuse: Sue Spaid and I worked on Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots together in 2012. The grid for Green Acres had a lot of time and conceptual reasoning invested into it. Since Ecovention Europe is a sort of sibling to Green Acres, we decided to reuse the Green Acres page layout templates. The type choices, grid setup, etc. for this book are lifted from Green Acres and tweaked for the minor new and different needs required for Ecovention Europe. Although sustainable designers routinely find novel ways to reuse materials, I’ve found little discussion for the possibility of reusing ideas and solutions, either as an exemplary form of reuse nor as a useful design tool.

                                                                                                                          Reduce: One goal for the manufacturing of this book is to expend fewer materials, most noticeably ink, than in the previous tomes I’ve designed. Using less ink required me to select colours more carefully and to use them more sparingly. No colour adds up to more that 100% ink coverage. (The book uses CMYK: and colour palette selections all start at 100% pure C, M, Y, or K, and then are mixed in equal percentages to keep 100% or less total coverage: 50% + 50%; 33% + 33% + 33%, etc.). Another way I tried to reduce ink was by using bitmapped city maps as the decorative section markers. The feeling of a filled area is kept, but since many pixels end up being blank, much less ink is used. Attempts to keep things from bleeding and to fill each page’s grid completely were also made (reduce paper, reduce ink). In Green Acres, I used some superficial decorative elements that looked nice but served no functional purpose — they merely took up room. I also ended columns only where a full paragraph ended to make a few things easier from a design perspective (less has to change if something is added or removed while things are being finalised; you don’t have to deal with as many annoying line or paragraph breaks across columns, etc.). So, while this gave a ragged, formally-nice flow to text columns, it was an inefficient use of space in the book. With the layout of Ecovention Europe, I spent a lot of effort reducing the amount of unused space, thus minimising paper waste (however, more time was used, still a resource not to be wasted).

                                                                                                                          As a conceptual exercise, this was good. But, did it actually make much of a difference? I don’t know yet. In a book like this, there are a lot of images, yet the artworks don’t adhere to the same ink coverage rules that I set for section colours and body text. One might also ask if I could achieve the look I want using only black, which would save a lot in terms of ink and clean-up over CMYK. Perhaps.

                                                                                                                          How could this be done differently and better next time? Would a different typeface save ink and space? Are there other ways to handle image inclusion? Is there an alternative to making this? (Should this exist at all? I didn’t ask myself that question before we began.) While I was not prepared to tackle these questions for this book, I will continue exploring and attempting to resolve them with subsequent projects.

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                                                                                                                          Case Study: Green Acres

                                                                                                                          30th September 2021 at 1:41am
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                                                                                                                          020210924002918 Ideas Case Study Critical Design Green Acres Print on Demand

                                                                                                                          Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses, and Abandoned Lots was a book produced with curator Sue Spaid, designer Jenna Kaminsky, and editor Marianne Amoss for the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, OH. Green Acres featured artists using farming as their art practice.

                                                                                                                          The goal: make the resultant book "sustainable." These were sustainability focused artists, how could I represent their ecological inventiveness in a printed book? The main things that made the production of this book "sustainable" at the time were that it was printed on demand, and it used recycled, unbleached paper. (A Sustainable Printing Manifesto)

                                                                                                                          Visually, the book's design was meant to be critical; the juxtaposition of small art farm graphics vs. giant commercial farm references via a constrained square grid and the aerial commercial farmland photography.

                                                                                                                          While the book intends to say something different, it conforms to common standards of "good" modernist layout. Other than a minor production method improvement, it's the same … ! Is it Sustainable Graphic Design?

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                                                                                                                          Case Study: MICA Grad Zine 2020

                                                                                                                          30th September 2021 at 1:22am
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                                                                                                                          020210924002918 Ideas Case Study MICA Grad Zine 2020

                                                                                                                          This is an interim piece for the MICA graduate admissions office. Visually the goal was to convey the diversity of graduate programs, as well as some of the current chaos of the present — this was produced during the fall of 2020, still during the uncertainty of the Covid19 pandemic. Different graduate directors were trying to convey the values of their programs, could the visuals contribute to helping visually provide the concept of many disparate things existing together? AND, there was an ask for the piece to embrace "sustainability."

                                                                                                                          So, the design decisions are spurred by those constraints. Free, open, accessible culture is an important value of mine, and that makes its way into this via the imagery selected and in open source fonts. This also gave me ways to find "art historically" relevant images, and repurpose them to my meaning making.

                                                                                                                          The printing solution was designed to minimize printing waste — the front and back of this "poster" are printed all as one plate on a single press sheet. The press sheet goes through the press, then is flipped over, and goes through the press again, voila. This means front and back of the pages were able to all be printed with one plate per color instead of two or more… All of these "values" intermingled here together, do they add up to a sustainable design? a beautiful design?

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                                                                                                                            Castles Made of Sand

                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 3:49pm
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                                                                                                                            Cennydd Bowles

                                                                                                                            6th September 2021 at 1:46pm
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                                                                                                                            Ch1: What is Sustainability?

                                                                                                                            23rd August 2021 at 4:13pm
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                                                                                                                            Learning Design for Sustainability

                                                                                                                            Change

                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                            Principle

                                                                                                                            Sustainabilitists do not believe in change for the sake of it. Change should only happen when it is necessary. Maybe it’s a better idea, maybe a material has become scarce, maybe the feeling is wrong … just make sure it is anything other than just: “let’s change it!”

                                                                                                                            Charles Sanders Peirce

                                                                                                                            22nd July 2021 at 11:10pm
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                                                                                                                            Context Grafting People Doing People Things Philosophy Semiotics

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                                                                                                                            Cheryl D Miller

                                                                                                                            14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                                            African American Designer

                                                                                                                            There will never be another Cheryl Miller, find your voice, don't duplicate create.

                                                                                                                            Chris Attenborough

                                                                                                                            6th July 2021 at 12:10am
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                                                                                                                            Christopher Alexander

                                                                                                                            22nd June 2021 at 10:54am
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                                                                                                                            Architecture People Doing People Things Vernacular

                                                                                                                            Christopher Butler

                                                                                                                            9th August 2021 at 2:09pm
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                                                                                                                            People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                            Designer, Writer, Email friend.

                                                                                                                            climate change

                                                                                                                            19th June 2021 at 12:27am
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                                                                                                                              Climate data gives us a deadline and an assignment.

                                                                                                                              20th August 2021 at 1:48pm
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                                                                                                                              Xiye Bastida and Bill McKibben in conversation

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                                                                                                                                Climate Design

                                                                                                                                19th June 2021 at 12:27am
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                                                                                                                                Climate Design, Signs signaling Sustainably, Build Earth, and more

                                                                                                                                27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                A Climate Designers Lecture Outline? Lecture Senior Seminar
                                                                                                                                1. Climate Design, Signs signaling Sustainably, Build Earth, and more

                                                                                                                                Slides: <https://www.figma.com/proto/AX7Z5MtB9lDTl300hhR5W8/ClimateDesigner?node-id=29%3A3&viewport=2339%2C896%2C0.25&scaling=contain>

                                                                                                                                [S001 NASA Earth?] [^Nasa]

                                                                                                                                  1. So you want to be a climate designer

                                                                                                                                [S003 KB Bamboo Harvest]

                                                                                                                                  1. A beginning [^EB]

                                                                                                                                [S005 A beginning?]

                                                                                                                                It was June 2019. I was on my roof re-mortaring my house and listening to podcasts about regenerative agriculture and carbon sequestration… The mental space this home maintenance left me with sent me thinking about how I as a mostly visual designer might do something as useful as these carbon sequestering farmers I was hearing about …

                                                                                                                                [S006 FreshPress?]

                                                                                                                                I got in touch with Eric Benson. Eric has a paper making farm and studio called "Fresh Press" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They grow native prairie grasses, and use them (mixed with other local agricultural waste) to make paper.

                                                                                                                                [S007 drawdown SSS book sketch]

                                                                                                                                I pitched this idea to Eric: using his paper I wanted to start making books that sequestered carbon. Prairie grass stores carbon in soil over time, his paper was an important part of my idea, but it wasn't enough — I asked Eric if he knew how I might find ink to use that direct air captured carbon too! The book text would slowly reveal itself as carbon was drawn into the ink.

                                                                                                                                Eric wasn't sure, but he thought we should loop in Marc O'Brien. Marc was working in the bay area designing with some carbon capture start ups — maybe one of his clients or colleagues could help.

                                                                                                                                Nope. Carbon capturing ink as I envision it isn't yet a thing. But, Eric, Marc, and I ended up having a longer, worthwhile exchange around teaching climate science in college design courses; as well as how more designers might be encouraged to undertake their work in climate consious ways.

                                                                                                                                  1. Climate Designers [dot] org

                                                                                                                                [S008 CD website?]

                                                                                                                                A few phone calls later, and tangible things began to happen. Marc and his business partner, Sarah Harrison, officially launched [Climate Designers {dot} org](https://climatedesigners.org) in the fall of 2019. And ever since then Eric, Marc, and I have been working on [Climate Designers EDU](https://www.climatedesigners.org/edu), a budding resource for design educators.

                                                                                                                                  1. Climate Designers is a website and a community

                                                                                                                                [S009 Mighty networks...]

                                                                                                                                The Climate designer community brings together design practitioners to share and master climate action practices. We want to empower every designer, every type of designer, to feel confident in using design to help avert a climate crisis.

                                                                                                                                  1. What is a climate designer[?]

                                                                                                                                [S010 WIACD]

                                                                                                                                A climate designer is a designer using their creative powers to fight climate change. "Climate designer" is a title one may grant upon themselves. If you are a designer doing (or wanting to do) work in the climate space; you should call yourself a climate designer.

                                                                                                                                  1. CD goals

                                                                                                                                [S011 CD Goals]

                                                                                                                                The community has two main goals:

                                                                                                                                1. Provide resources, knowledge, and community for designers to take on climate action in their work. 2. Inspire, motivate, and graduate new climate designers by providing climate-focused resources for educators.

                                                                                                                                    1. Goal 1: Practice

                                                                                                                                [S012 Practice!]

                                                                                                                                1. Provide resources, knowledge, and community for designers to take on climate action in their work.

                                                                                                                                Goal 1 is about updating design practice: how to tangibly, actionably, pragmatically shift design to consider climate as a key design constraint of any prompt and new project.

                                                                                                                                We want designers who feel unable to or unsure of how to use their work to tackle climate change to see how others are working. How does factoring in climate change change business plans, materials, processes, career paths, tactics, etc.? Let's move further and faster together towards best practices, new ideas, & repurposing old ideas in the climate space?

                                                                                                                                We do not want to make you feel bad about your existing design position, nor that you have to quit your job to work this way — how can you do this in your existing role?

                                                                                                                                - Maybe that's bringing new climate-aware criteria and constraints into decision making: materials that use less energy? typefaces that require less ink? software and service providers that have sustainability initiatives? a local, socially positive workforce? - If you get to help pick projects or you run your own studio can you look for clients whose missions align socially and ecologically? - If you are working in-house somewhere that seems unrelated to or disconnected from climate change you may just need to ask more questions… find where you can affect an outcome no matter how small. (also, nothing is operating outside of climate impacts).

                                                                                                                                [S013 climate base]

                                                                                                                                If you do want a design job directly related to drawing down carbon, or you think where you are is a lost cause, Climate Designers has help with that too: the ClimateBase job board!

                                                                                                                                    1. Goal 2: Pedagogy

                                                                                                                                [S014 Pegagogy]

                                                                                                                                2. Inspire, motivate, and graduate new climate designers by providing climate-focused resources for educators.

                                                                                                                                Goal 2 is concerned with evolving design pedagogy.

                                                                                                                                We're helping to answer questions like:

                                                                                                                                - What skills do students (& educators) need to have in order to address our climate crisis? - How can design educators support students as they start their path towards climate designing? - How do you integrate the required technical, social, scientific, & philosophical work into design courses? - How can we help introduce climate related concerns into design curriculum at large?

                                                                                                                                Climate Design EDU is gathering materials from the Climate Design teachers and professors currently integrating climate design in their courses. And as our curated selection grows we hope to generate new resources and new materials creating even more "climate design" programs and curriculum arcs. Illuminate and illustrate where different opportunities and colloabroations might lie depending on what environment you find yourself teaching in. What simple, small steps one can take if you're not able to affect the curriculum as a whole.

                                                                                                                                  1. What does a Climate Designer make

                                                                                                                                [S016 What does a climate designer make?]

                                                                                                                                That's what Climate Designers *is* — designers engaging with the climate in their work and teaching. In my utopian vision, here's how design outputs evolve and change when you adopt "climate design" as a mindset.

                                                                                                                                [S017 Back to the book]

                                                                                                                                Let's loop back to the beginning (everything is connected, cycles are everywhere). The carbon negative book idea that connected Eric, Marc and I is an example of work Climate Designers should concept, make, and develop: design objects clearly embodying aspects of climate change.

                                                                                                                                [S018 Grasp the Invisible?]

                                                                                                                                While a sequestering book isn't likely to exist anytime soon, even the *idea* of objects like that is useful. A book like this would require the absorption of known amount of CO2 to become legible — this becomes a sign for X quantity of carbon and helps one grasp what is otherwise intangible.

                                                                                                                                  1. Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                [S019 SSS]

                                                                                                                                I like to call designs like this "Signs signaling Sustainability." This is the real opportunity for Designers taking climate action — turning every design opportunity into a sign signaling sustainability. Make tangible, make understandable something about climate change. This is doable no matter the project; no matter the prompt.

                                                                                                                                So this sequestering book example focuses on "visualizing CO2". But, there are myriad other aspects of climate change and sustainability one might signal.

                                                                                                                                  1. Where Else to get Inspired

                                                                                                                                [S020 DrawDown]

                                                                                                                                I am particularly *drawn* to [Project DrawDown](https://www.DrawDown.org) as a framework revealing opportunities for "signs signaling sustainability". Project DrawDown presents the most effective means for pulling carbon out of the atmostphere. Digging into all the "solutions" on Project DrawDown, the ways artists and designers might involve themselves is multitudinous. All kinds of work can be reframed as a "sign signaling sustainability" if you rethink the aims of a prompt so that it fits into an idea from Project DrawDown's table of solutions.

                                                                                                                                [S021 Reverberations Crosswalk]

                                                                                                                                Take for instance Graham Coreil Allen's *Reverberation Crosswalks*. On the surface, these are fun, brightly colored crosswalks — paint on cement and asphalt; not particularly innovative in the "new materials" or "direct carbon capture." But! looking at Project DrawDown solutions, *walkable cities* is the 50th overall reduction solution. Suddenly *Reverberations Crosswalks* signals a sustainable vector forward. The neighborhood around this school is more walkable. You can't not notice the crosswalks, hopefully this makes you more likely to walk yourself. This concept is cheap; fast; easily replicated; can be customized for region, culture, available materials, etc.; AND can help make more people walk in the city. Bam! Climate Designed.

                                                                                                                                    1. Solar.lowtechmagazine.com

                                                                                                                                [S022 Low Tech]

                                                                                                                                Distributed Solar Photovoltaics is also on Drawdown's list. And Low Tech Magazine's solar powered website signals how we might visualize energy usage; how we might enable new sytems of powering our tools; questions if we really need constant connection; and how aesthetic choices correlate to physical resources even in the digital sphere.

                                                                                                                                    1. DC High Water Mark Project

                                                                                                                                [S023 HWM]

                                                                                                                                And you don't have to just signal "sustainable" things from DrawDown... that's just an easy way to get started.

                                                                                                                                The DC water mark project visualizes increased flooding and water level rise — where these impacts will be felt by you in this place! The water level rings articulates to us "oh shit, this place might be underwater pretty frequently given our current projected future!" Then maybe we can act accordingly and redirect our present towards a future where that is no longer true. Without *seeing* your house or office or favorite park area submerged, even symoblically, you cannot envision an alternative.

                                                                                                                                [S025 SOS]

                                                                                                                                - Tattfoo Tan, *S.O.S. Steward* Enrolled in various green courses and acquired certification for green knowledge. To flaunt my new found title in the form of a merit patch on my gray coverall and wear it during events and gardening session. I'm intrigue by the certification of knowledge and the power that was bestow by the agency that gave the certificate. Partly propelled by the thirst of knowledge and partly to sustain the endurance of going to classes and community service requirements of these courses. (<http://tattfoo.com/sos/SOSGreenStewardship.html>)

                                                                                                                                [S026 Ecovention]

                                                                                                                                - Ecovention Grid/Color palette Attempt at minimizing ink coverage, but still getting a range of colors so as to uniquely colorcode each section of a exhibition catalog. ?

                                                                                                                                [S027 Climates book]

                                                                                                                                - *Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary* Neil Donnelly, 2016. The interior paper gets gradually thinner from the beginning to the end, conveying scarcity and depletion through the materiality of the book. One could easily see something like this in reverse, perhaps a book about sea level rise has its paper get thicker as the book progresses? (<https://neildonnelly.net/#climates>)

                                                                                                                                - Space Hippie? - Improvisational Lamps? - Flower based "down" substitute? - Amager Bakke unmade vapor ring? - Print posters on found paper?

                                                                                                                                These examples communicate additional information as key aspects of their design. They redirect culture towards better *future possibles.* And! this is a great place to work as a graphic designer.

                                                                                                                                  1. A Conclusion

                                                                                                                                [S028 An Ending?]

                                                                                                                                Success in climate designers' stated goals means a future where "climate designers" no longer need exist. *Climate designing* is no longer extra, it becomes plain *designing*. Did you use a grid? did you sequester carbon? did you match your aesthetic to you audience? did you reduce your energy requirements? did you kern your headlines? did you restore spaceship earth? No? well then that's *bad* design.

                                                                                                                                  1. BauErden (Build Earth)

                                                                                                                                [S029 Nasa earth again]

                                                                                                                                Earthstronauts.

                                                                                                                                The ultimate aim of design must be restoring ​harmony in the carbon cycle. No longer can we produce ​meaningless prints, tchotchkes, devices, apps, objects, and software. ​ No design shall be created without first asking “does this need to exist?” – “does this drawn down carbon from the atmosphere?” – “does this re-balance natural systems?”

                                                                                                                                We need conscious​, cooperative effort between all artists, designers, politicians, craftspeople, scientists, farmers, parents, small business owners. A new design education must aid in this. How might a new pluralistic pedagogical approaches focus on the liminal; designers as connectors for all of these actors? For everything is connected.

                                                                                                                                Designers must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of “climate” as a holistic entity AND in its separate, interconnected parts (climate(s): natural, social, etc.? _the_ planetary climate? the earth? nature? the universe?). Only then will our designing be imbued with the spirit it has lost as mere servant of capitalism.

                                                                                                                                Old styles and models for designing​ are not capable of producing the required new unity. Abandon them. New styles, new processses, new ways of working, of making, and of seeing — again, pluralistic — are required.​

                                                                                                                                We must merge design with the workshop, the science lab, the forest, the internet, the ocean depths, the lecture hall, the meadow, the studio, and the public square. Designers must be the nexus between new interests and needs. Our client is our climate. Our goals: drawing down carbon, the welfare of all life, and the restoration of spaceship earth.

                                                                                                                                Good luck.

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                                                                                                                                  1. Footnotes

                                                                                                                                [^Nasa]: Blue Marble 2012; A contemporary blue marble image, image was released to the public on January 25, 2012. NASA <https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/31258502484/in/album-72157646697326324/>

                                                                                                                                [^BIG.DK]: Check out the Amager Bakke project on Bjarke Ingels Group website… <https://big.dk/#projects-arc>

                                                                                                                                [^EB]: Eric Benson also recounts his version of this tale here: <https://ericbenson.medium.com/behind-the-syllabus-how-to-introduce-climate-science-into-your-design-curriculum-36d38f14f5ab>

                                                                                                                                other stuff I referenced?

                                                                                                                                - <https://www.freshpress.studio/projects> - <https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/31258502484/in/album-72157646697326324/> - <https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/5052124705/in/album-72157625096855580/> - <https://www.climatedesigners.org/edu/behindthesyllabus> - <https://thepangaia.com/pages/flowerdown> - <https://www.nike.com/t/space-hippie-04-mens-shoe-gGWDLk/CZ6398-001> - <https://ericbenson.medium.com/behind-the-syllabus-how-to-introduce-climate-science-into-your-design-curriculum-36d38f14f5ab> - <https://www.nike.com/space-hippie>

                                                                                                                                Climate Designer

                                                                                                                                19th June 2021 at 12:27am
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                                                                                                                                Climate Designers

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                                                                                                                                We are designers and creative professionals from all industries, committed to using our creative skills for climate action.

                                                                                                                                Our Mission!!!

                                                                                                                                • To provide the resources, knowledge, and community for designers to take climate action in the work they do.
                                                                                                                                • To inspire, motivate, and graduate climate designers by providing climate-focused resources for design educators.

                                                                                                                                Climate Designers Include:

                                                                                                                                Climate Solutions 101

                                                                                                                                20th October 2021 at 11:50pm
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                                                                                                                                A series of video lectures from Project Drawdown

                                                                                                                                Your climate solutions journey begins now. Filled with the latest need-to-know science and fascinating insights from global leaders in climate policy, research, investment, and beyond, this video series is a brain-shift toward a brighter climate reality.

                                                                                                                                Climate Solutions 101 is the world’s first major educational effort focused solely on solutions. Rather than rehashing well-known climate challenges, Project Drawdown centers game-changing climate action based on its own rigorous scientific research and analysis. This course, presented in video units and in-depth conversations, combines Project Drawdown’s trusted resources with the expertise of several inspiring voices from around the world. Climate solutions become attainable with increased access to free, science-based educational resources, elevated public discourse, and tangible examples of real-world action. Continue your climate solutions journey, today.

                                                                                                                                Climate Solutions at Work

                                                                                                                                30th September 2021 at 10:45pm
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                                                                                                                                PDF Source Web

                                                                                                                                from Project Drawdown

                                                                                                                                Climate Solutions at Work, presented by Drawdown Labs, is a how-to guide for employees looking to make every job a climate job.

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                                                                                                                                  Climate up close

                                                                                                                                  8th July 2021 at 5:00pm
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                                                                                                                                  When was the last time you talked to a climate scientist? For most Americans, the answer is never. We’re here to change that.

                                                                                                                                  https://www.climateupclose.org/

                                                                                                                                  Climify Design Assignments

                                                                                                                                  10th August 2021 at 11:28am
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                                                                                                                                  Professorship Source Syllabi

                                                                                                                                  Some ideas for projects from the Climify Podcast by Eric Benson and Marc O'Brien

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                                                                                                                                    CO2

                                                                                                                                    5th July 2021 at 1:33pm
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                                                                                                                                    Definition

                                                                                                                                    CO2 stands for Carbon Dioxide. One Carbon and two Oxygens. One of the main greenhouse gases that we can most easily control no longer sending up into the atmosphere!

                                                                                                                                    Coal has to be running all of the time

                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                    Nuclear and Coal are Obsolete

                                                                                                                                    Base Load

                                                                                                                                    Coal has to be running all of the time, it can't quickly ramp up or down (same for nuclear)

                                                                                                                                    Collective Action Not Individualism

                                                                                                                                    29th August 2021 at 11:34pm
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                                                                                                                                    JOMO note The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)

                                                                                                                                    Sustainability is not about individualism; not about individual actions. It's about the collective. How can trust in our world and other people improve the contexts? Our communal success is just that – communal. So we need to think about our own success in ways that are more than purely individual.

                                                                                                                                    See JOMO p63 ¶2 l22, The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)

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                                                                                                                                    College is your chance to try a bunch of things

                                                                                                                                    22nd June 2021 at 10:50am
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                                                                                                                                    Community-Engaged Research (CEnR)

                                                                                                                                    25th June 2021 at 1:06am
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                                                                                                                                    Definition Social Design

                                                                                                                                    Community

                                                                                                                                    CEnR is an approach to conducting research, not a methodology

                                                                                                                                    CEnR is an umbrella term for a range of research:

                                                                                                                                    Essential Principles:

                                                                                                                                    • Recognizes and builds on the strengths of community organizations and individuals
                                                                                                                                    • involves partnerships with existing organizations, such as schools, agencies, and other community organizations, to address community issues
                                                                                                                                    • Partnerships are built on respect, cooperation, and collaboration
                                                                                                                                    • partners should share a mutual trust, respect, and commitment
                                                                                                                                    • Addresses a research topic that is important to the community
                                                                                                                                    • people affected by the issue must be part of the research and the development of any solution that may address the issue
                                                                                                                                    • prioritizes benefits to the community
                                                                                                                                    • Partnerships require time and attention to maintain
                                                                                                                                    • Partnerships combine knowledge with action
                                                                                                                                    • Researchers and community partners negotiate terms of engagement for research partnerships, so as to share a common understanding of expectations, roles, responsibilities, and resources

                                                                                                                                    Compare Sustainable GD with non-sustainable GD

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                                                                                                                                    Complexity

                                                                                                                                    21st July 2021 at 12:49pm
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                                                                                                                                    Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                    Life is complex. Today’s problems involve all manner of inputs, outputs, content, contexts, devices, and formats. It is impossible to know or understand all aspects of a design problem. But, while life is complex, it does not have to be confusing. A good teacher shows students how to evaluate Complexity and then provide clues as to what are appropriate uses, paths, etc. with the end goal of making the designed objects around us usable and understandable. Design is a tool for making complex comprehensible. This is not the same as making things simple, it is about properly communicating intent.

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                                                                                                                                    Complexity is fundamental

                                                                                                                                    21st July 2021 at 12:49pm
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                                                                                                                                    complexity is a fundamental feature of our universe. designing with the goal of making everything “simple” is foolish.

                                                                                                                                    to graphic designing is trying to make the complex intelligible

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                                                                                                                                    Compost

                                                                                                                                    5th July 2021 at 1:38pm
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                                                                                                                                    Definition

                                                                                                                                    In nature nothing goes to waste. Nearly all carbon based life can be "composted" or turned back into soil, ready to nurish and grow whatever comes next.

                                                                                                                                    Compost Pile Cookery

                                                                                                                                    1st November 2021 at 12:39am
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                                                                                                                                    How do I cook food with food waste? can the heat of Compost be enough to provide cooking heat?

                                                                                                                                    Inspired by Hugh Pocock

                                                                                                                                    Conceptual Thinking

                                                                                                                                    25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                                    Form, Content, Context Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                    Different intents require different solutions. Conceptual thinking results in work where ideas based on content and context map to formal conclusions (the correct contentual «» contextual «» formal relationships are found). Being able to adeptly use and describe connections between form, content, and context is key — ideas are only useful if they result in the lucid arguments (meaning it is the correct concept and the correct form for the audience). Design solutions lacking integrity between content and context and form, or work propped up solely by baroque explanation or otherwise tenuous themes, has not been properly thought out. (See accurate vs. formal)

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                                                                                                                                      Conclusion

                                                                                                                                      27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                      Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                      “There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. It is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular place in which it occurs.”

                                                                                                                                      — Christopher Alexander

                                                                                                                                      The qualities that do promote the welfare of all life are, like the quality without a name Alexander presents, ineffable. And like the quality without a name, the aesthetics that correspond with this — the graphic design visuals that might show the welfare of all life — shift and change with different contexts. A wild garden, a biodegradable book, a thriving farmers market.

                                                                                                                                      In prepping this lecture I was looking for the thread that connected my works together. That thread I thought was: what does sustainable graphic design look like? Everything I make continues to be an attempt at providing more answers to this.

                                                                                                                                      But, I used to be hung up on the visual aesthetics. I wanted sustainable things to LOOK DIFFERENT to have their own aesthetic… but what I've learned is that the way sustainable graphic design looks isn't as important as the values underpinning the designs themselves. Anything that helps promote the flourishing of nature’s interconnected systems will look "correct" formally. That doesn’t require a (externally decided) particular style, material, or typeface.

                                                                                                                                      Conditional

                                                                                                                                      6th July 2021 at 12:05am
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                                                                                                                                      Conditional Design

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                                                                                                                                      Process

                                                                                                                                      Conditional Design The Workbook

                                                                                                                                      20th June 2021 at 2:19am
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                                                                                                                                      Valiz

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                                                                                                                                        Confidence

                                                                                                                                        22nd October 2021 at 12:41am
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                                                                                                                                        Definition

                                                                                                                                        Confidence is "The willingness to try" (from Mel Robbins)

                                                                                                                                        Confronting Anthropocentrism

                                                                                                                                        20th August 2021 at 10:12pm
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                                                                                                                                        The pitfalls of anthropocentrism

                                                                                                                                        negative: just shrugging our shoulders in the face of human impact, and just let nature take its course

                                                                                                                                        positive: the invitation to embrace the colonization of the planet and the domination of nature as humanity's manifest destiny

                                                                                                                                        Anthropocentrims: what is the cultural conidtion of the human?

                                                                                                                                        HUMAN supremacy: Humans are superior to all other life forms and entitled to USE them

                                                                                                                                        * the earth belongs to humanity * the earth consits of resources for the betterment of people * humans are obviously superior to all other species > this is an invisible belief system that can be seen in how most people interact with the biosphere

                                                                                                                                        Civilization seems unable to halt its expansionism even in the face of its own potential demise.

                                                                                                                                        what is the relationship between humanity and nature?

                                                                                                                                        amnesia about the living world is the existential condition we have reached in exchange for the supremacist exercise of power.

                                                                                                                                        Alienation from the biosphere

                                                                                                                                        The framework keeps the spotlight on human ingenuity to solve problems and it even invites admiration for that ingenuity

                                                                                                                                        A piecemeal technological framework avoids challenging human expansionism — but it wants to make human dominion “sustainable”

                                                                                                                                        What possibilities open if we choose to abandon anthropocentrism?

                                                                                                                                        What possibilities open if we choose to abandon anthropocentrism and create a new world view and a new civilization?

                                                                                                                                        • The earth is a community of unique and exquisite beings, places, and cultures
                                                                                                                                        • The planet inhabited with respect is abundant for our material sustenance and ravishing for our spirit
                                                                                                                                        • The natural world abounds in diverse forms of intelligence and awareness

                                                                                                                                        Constraint

                                                                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                        Principle

                                                                                                                                        This is the realm of restrictions, stipulations and specifications. Defined at the outset, Limitations can guide a solution. Not to be confused with sacrifice (which is reactive and loss-based), constraint results from analyzing available options.

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                                                                                                                                        Content is King

                                                                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 11:42pm
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                                                                                                                                        CAPE Pure Content Writing

                                                                                                                                        Publishing is about content. Getting content to where you need it. Getting it into the form you need it. Content needs structure. It needs hierarchy. However, the end-form the content takes should dictate the style. Content should remain structured, yet style-less.[^1]

                                                                                                                                        In a perfect world, blank, structured, meta-data rich content is fed to whatever service, tool, program, etc. desired and then is picked apart and displayed whatever way is best. We are not yet in this perfect world. Content is not created in this clean, pure way. Writers write, editors edit, designers design, developers develop, creators create — a soupy process of back-and-forth ensues. Since each type of “creator” has their own set of tools, the revisions, changes, updates, etc. that happen all flow across emails, different documents, and different programs and are not always easily manageable, trackable, or cross-compatible. This does not have to be the case.

                                                                                                                                        It isn’t always known all the places content will be needed or desired. This is short sited. It is also a common problem. When someone is creating a book, the workflow is optimized for a physical tome to be the final resting place for that content. A year or two passes when it is realized that the book content is needed for a website, or a magazine, or whatever else instead. This necessitates pulling all the final edits, changes, formatting — whatever — from the design file, and recreating a text file to move to the next place. This is inefficient, frustrating and error prone. It also means that at the end of this process the most correct version of the book’s text and layout are locked into a layout program document. This isn’t easy to use again for another sized book, etc.

                                                                                                                                        The same can happen on the web. A blog is created. Originally this is just for fun. Many posts rack up. Visitors come. Suddenly a magazine article is asked for, or a book deal is signed. How does that content get to the form necessary for print production from its digital, database locked forms?[^2]

                                                                                                                                        What these scenarios (and many others) share in common is that the content was created directly with and for the tools of immediate, intended production — not just for any tools of production. Content should be able to live on its own and just wait for where it wants to be sent, not live singular, complicated lives that don’t mix well.

                                                                                                                                        On the one hand this is easy, it just requires some simple refiguring of the creation and tracking process. On the other its incredibly complicated because the tools we’ve learned to use are mostly ill-suited for this process. Microsoft word for example. A horrible content creation tool. Everything is mired in mucky styling and formatting that is incredibly hard to get out both for use in a print context and in a web context. Indesign for layout doesn’t out of the box understand very much in the way of text-only formatting. The web is rigid and automated in ways that make matching styling and flexibility to content occasionally frustrating. The key still lays in the creation stage.

                                                                                                                                        I will present several thought-experiments (which have semi-functioning web and print experiments to visually exemplify the ideas and process) that show a variety of ways that “content”[^3] can better conform to its idealized, perfect form suitable for a “create anywhere, publish everywhere” mindset.

                                                                                                                                        First, a book that has already been designed will be examined. A final InDesign file will go from a formatted, rigid document, back into raw content. This is important as often the “design” phase does affect the content. This method respects this idea, yet still conforms to an idealized content that can be tracked, edited, updated, and reused on its own. This also begins to pave the way for a more dynamic print workflow where content updates can update printable PDF files — say for a print-on-demand project or downloadable PDF situation.

                                                                                                                                        Next, a website full of content created specifically for that publication channel only will be turned into repository of raw content that still publishes as desired to the web, but suddenly opens up uses for print, or other digital formats. (for example, you have a website AND a separate, optimized phone application, whats the best way to get the content to both places?).

                                                                                                                                        Finally, an idealized workflow will be examined. Options for best practices will be discussed.

                                                                                                                                        Collaboration is important in the creation of great content. Writers, designers, developers, etc. all have key roles they play. One of the goals of the “create anywhere, publish everywhere” methodology is that collaborative contributions should be valued, allowed, and made as easy as possible through whatever tool the user is most familiar with. With content in the correct format upfront, this can be possible.

                                                                                                                                        [^1]: I am here referring to visual style, not written style [^2]: Actually, it is a lot easier to go from the web to print than vise versa, at least in terms of getting clean, structured but unstyled content… but we’ll get to this more later. [^3]: By content I mean a the collection of text documents, images, and any other necessary files or data required for publishing what is being created.

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                                                                                                                                          Context Plugin

                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 10:33am
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                                                                                                                                          tiddlyWiki

                                                                                                                                          Cool Design Features To Add/Tweak

                                                                                                                                          29th August 2021 at 11:39pm
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                                                                                                                                          • Better styling overall
                                                                                                                                            • For sure get rid of annoying pink color currently in use ASAP, otherwise the high contrast palette is more or less fine :)
                                                                                                                                          • Templates for different kinds of tiddlers – like do people and terms and books/sources and writings about ideas all have different things that should be shown?
                                                                                                                                          • show additional info card @ top of tiddler only when there is additional info?
                                                                                                                                          • For note taking: P83 ¶2 L13 < - what to do about this kind of meta data from notes I take and include in here???!!??!? And should I include some book code or other reference, not just P¶L???
                                                                                                                                          • When I include an image/picture, how to link to it usefully? how to link to the consituent parts?? how to show/explain/describe what fonts, images, tools, etc. were used to make it?

                                                                                                                                          Tagged FIXME!

                                                                                                                                          Tagged Tweaks

                                                                                                                                          Done(ish)!?

                                                                                                                                          • [Done] Idea Explorer: Show backlinks AND forward links at the bottom of every tiddler
                                                                                                                                          • [Done] nice way of showing all the useful extra fields on tiddlers in their card?
                                                                                                                                          • [Done] Show in/out links only when there are in/out links

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                                                                                                                                            Cradle to Cradle

                                                                                                                                            20th August 2021 at 10:16am
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                                                                                                                                            By William McDonough & Michael Braungart

                                                                                                                                            Fundamental design book for sustainable design. A triple bottom line text.

                                                                                                                                            We can make as much as we want of anything we want as long as the materials and systems are infinitely cycled and that all Waste = Food for the next processes.

                                                                                                                                            Biological Nutrient vs. Technical Nutrient

                                                                                                                                            Create An Outline

                                                                                                                                            27th June 2021 at 2:31am
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                                                                                                                                            • Towards a Sustainable Aesthetic?
                                                                                                                                            • Sustainable Graphic Design
                                                                                                                                              • What is sustainability?
                                                                                                                                              • What is Graphic Design?
                                                                                                                                                • Is Graphic Design too Limitiing? What is Design!?
                                                                                                                                                • Sign on Substrates Signaling
                                                                                                                                                  • Signaling vs. communicating?
                                                                                                                                            • Free/Libre Open Source
                                                                                                                                              • Libre design as a new version of the discipline?
                                                                                                                                            • What was I trying to cover in my Nebraska Lecture Outline + Notes
                                                                                                                                              • use that here to get re-started?
                                                                                                                                            • What else do I think is important or useful?
                                                                                                                                              • Are.na boards?
                                                                                                                                                • The Bits that make up a design philosophy
                                                                                                                                                • professorship
                                                                                                                                                • the sustainabilitist
                                                                                                                                                • new design school
                                                                                                                                                • sustainable aesthetics

                                                                                                                                            Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere

                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 11:45pm
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                                                                                                                                            Pure Content Writing

                                                                                                                                            CAPE = Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere

                                                                                                                                            Ideas Explaining:

                                                                                                                                            Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere is software, service, and philosophy. The way the contemporary web works increasingly focuses on linking together disparate and specialized services; not providing a single website with all solutions hardwired directly into the site proper. Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere accepts and embraces this new ideology. Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere uses standard formatting, hardware, software, services, and server technologies. However, the way in which these things are combined is often quite novel.

                                                                                                                                            Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere is a service for connecting your services. Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere desires to provide an interface to control content — photos from Flickr, Instagram, Amazon S3, or Behance; documents from Dropbox, Google Drive, or Github; items from an inventory management system; Facebook Posts, Wordpress posts, content from your existing website — anything accessible via API, anything in an RSS feed, and anything otherwise publishable to the web (or cloud) in a common data format (XML, JSON, TXT, etc.). The goal: make your content work for you in more places.

                                                                                                                                            Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere wants to rethink content creation and management. It is best to approach content creation in as pure a way as possible (meaning semantic, structural, meta-data rich content — not styled content). This makes it easy then for Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere to always map content from one place to another and easily template it for whatever use required.

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                                                                                                                                            12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                            Big Ideas Wjerk

                                                                                                                                            From Daniel Eatock

                                                                                                                                            Creative consultancy…

                                                                                                                                            Hour Ideas

                                                                                                                                            Sessions lasts 60 minutes, and take place in my studio in East London, your place of work, or remotely.

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                                                                                                                                            Focused and collaborative, together we talk, draw, write, Google things, make coffee (if needed), walk around the block. We dream of possibilities, pushing each other, encouraging and shaping thought into inspiring ideas.

                                                                                                                                            Ideas are the foundation for all creative endeavours. Ideas are fragile, and during their generation we treat them with care so they can blossom, nothing is shut down. Silly ideas can lead to profound things.

                                                                                                                                            I work with design studios, advertising agencies, innovation consultancies, start ups, and collaborate with creative teams, established creative directors, strategists, planners, non creatives, entrepreneurs, young and old, local and international.

                                                                                                                                            My approach is interdisciplinary, non subject specific and collaborative, combining a practical commercial understanding steaming from graphic design with a reductive conceptual purity of thought from art and teaching. Everything generated in the meeting is yours, and remains confidential.

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                                                                                                                                              Creative Savior Complex

                                                                                                                                              25th August 2021 at 10:51am
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                                                                                                                                                Creative Saviour Complex

                                                                                                                                                20th August 2021 at 10:19pm
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                                                                                                                                                Critical Design

                                                                                                                                                30th September 2021 at 1:46am
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                                                                                                                                                From Dunne and Raby

                                                                                                                                                design that “provides a critique of the prevailing situation through designs that embody alternative social, cultural, technical, or economic values.”

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                                                                                                                                                Critical Pedagogy

                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 2:13pm
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                                                                                                                                                Empowerment Education

                                                                                                                                                pedagogy of generosity

                                                                                                                                                Jesse Stommel: Ultimately, education has to be about kindness.

                                                                                                                                                There is a “kill the Buddha” sensibility to critical pedagogy.

                                                                                                                                                For Freire’s message to be taken seriously, we cannot uphold Freire as the patriarch of critical pedagogy.

                                                                                                                                                None of us can be the patriarch. None of us can be they-who-are-right-all-the-time.

                                                                                                                                                Critical Pedagogy Questions

                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 2:12pm
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                                                                                                                                                Critical Pedagogy

                                                                                                                                                • Is the primary effort of education bent toward the humanization of its participants (learners and educators alike)? If it is not, should it be? What does humanization look like as curricula, as syllabi, as lesson plan?
                                                                                                                                                • If it is not our task to “make deposits” into students’ minds, to reinforce learner passivity, but rather to spark inquiry, where is the best place to start?
                                                                                                                                                • How are we teaching, really, and how are we relating to the world, really? Do we walk the walk we want to walk, the walk we say we walk?
                                                                                                                                                • If, as Freire points out, the “teacher’s thinking is authenticated only by the authenticity of the students’ thinking” (58), what process might we follow to foster authentic thinking — in the classroom as much as in professional spaces?

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                                                                                                                                                  25th August 2021 at 10:14am
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                                                                                                                                                  Creative Savior Complex

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                                                                                                                                                  “When you produce something that has no value on purpose, what you're really creating is a critique.”

                                                                                                                                                  — Sam Lavigne, @sam_lavigne

                                                                                                                                                  When the founders were asked why they created it, one of them shared stories of how they would be invited to “24-hour hackathons, where the goal would be to end water crisis.”

                                                                                                                                                  A lot of time and energy is spent creating solutions that aren’t actually what they claim to be doing. Rather than that, "when you produce something that has no value on purpose, what you're really creating is a critique."

                                                                                                                                                  Cycles

                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                  Principle

                                                                                                                                                  Outputs must become inputs; there will be no such thing as Waste. Waste from one process will be raw material in another. Nature is cyclical, so our sustainabilitist processes shall be, too.

                                                                                                                                                  Damn the Absolute Episode 10

                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                  Daniel Eatock

                                                                                                                                                  15th July 2021 at 10:47pm
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                                                                                                                                                  People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                  Conditional Design

                                                                                                                                                  He has a wonderful Manifesto > Daniel Eatock Manifesto

                                                                                                                                                  Daniel Eatock Manifesto

                                                                                                                                                  15th July 2021 at 10:48pm
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                                                                                                                                                  Conceptual Art Manifesto
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                                                                                                                                                  • Begin with ideas
                                                                                                                                                  • Embrace chance
                                                                                                                                                  • Celebrate coincidence
                                                                                                                                                  • Ad-lib and make things up
                                                                                                                                                  • Eliminate superfluous elements
                                                                                                                                                  • Subvert expectation
                                                                                                                                                  • Make something difficult look easy
                                                                                                                                                  • Be first or last
                                                                                                                                                  • Believe complex ideas can produce simple things
                                                                                                                                                  • Trust the process
                                                                                                                                                  • Allow concepts to determine form
                                                                                                                                                  • Reduce material and production to their essence
                                                                                                                                                  • Sustain the integrity of an idea
                                                                                                                                                  • Propose honesty as a solution

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                                                                                                                                                    DateExplorer

                                                                                                                                                    28th July 2021 at 2:44am
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                                                                                                                                                    David B. Yaden, PhD

                                                                                                                                                    21st July 2021 at 1:32am
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                                                                                                                                                    People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                    Mentioned in something I was reading about Jeff Bezos' first "space" flight. https://news.yahoo.com/jeff-bezos-went-space-realize-233347245.html

                                                                                                                                                    David Bennell

                                                                                                                                                    23rd August 2021 at 5:00pm
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                                                                                                                                                    People Doing People Things

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                                                                                                                                                      David Kwon: Circularity

                                                                                                                                                      8th July 2021 at 2:50pm
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                                                                                                                                                      David Pye

                                                                                                                                                      23rd June 2021 at 10:56pm
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                                                                                                                                                      People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                      David Pye, who died in 1993, was an architect, industrial designer, and wood craftsman. For many years he was Professor of Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art, London. He is also the author of Ships, and of The Nature and Art of Workmanship

                                                                                                                                                      DC High Water Mark Project

                                                                                                                                                      27th August 2021 at 11:27pm
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                                                                                                                                                      An Idea: Signs Signaling Sustainability Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                      The DC water mark project visualizes increased flooding and water level rise. The water level rings articulate "oh shit, this place might be underwater pretty frequently given our current projected future!" By signaling this, perhaps we can act accordingly and redirect our present towards a future where that is no longer true. Without _seeing_ your house or office or favorite park area submerged, even symbolically, you cannot envision an alternative. (Curry J. Hackett / Wayside Studio)

                                                                                                                                                      Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?

                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 12:52pm
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                                                                                                                                                      Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. A discussion that'll make you think – and might even change your mind.

                                                                                                                                                      Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson

                                                                                                                                                      a TED debate.

                                                                                                                                                      Decentralized

                                                                                                                                                      20th August 2021 at 12:20am
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                                                                                                                                                      Decoupling content from its site

                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:42pm
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                                                                                                                                                      CAPE Writing

                                                                                                                                                      One thing that isn't working well for me with Ruhoh, Wintersmith, etc. is that they mix site content with site generation files to a certain extent. I want to give my clients the simple experience of only editing stuff that they should see — and not having to teach them to ignore things. Content should be separate from templates or any other site-specific information.

                                                                                                                                                      So, can the content be meaningfully de-coupled from the site generation in these contexts? That is the main aim of “Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere” (CAPE) right? So does that mean that Ruhoh (or wintersmith or jekyll or any other static site generator) just actually aren't the right tools to be helping with the job I want to do?

                                                                                                                                                      Some MFA students last year in the GDMFA program here at MICA build a poster generating machine. It was basically just a website. There were controls via an Arduino box and some code that allowed a viewer to adjust the CSS of a digital “poster” with knobs and buttons. The most important control was a big “print” button. This basically took a screen shot of the display, then saved that capture to a dropbox folder. Another computer, this one hooked up to the printer, had an apple script running that said “when a new image shows up in this dropbox folder, print it.” Using this method the grad students built a pretty seamless system that made posters, printed out images, and also uploaded all of them to a tumblr blog (which then was used to feed images to their “website”). There were a lot of moving pieces required — a lot of behind the scenes, hacked together complexity — but to the user/viewer it looked simple and seamless and easy.

                                                                                                                                                      Locally, I could figure this out short term — I could share a folder with a client, put in the files in a directory structure that made sense to their specific needs, and then have it upon syncing trigger an action on my laptop that updated a git repository or similar. But how long would that last? The site could have a git repo of just content, and this content could then get sent around to wherever was desired. This would also be relatively easy to explain what might need to be explained to the clients then, and hide all the complexity they need know nothing about. How does this get ramped up into production though? I can't have every clients’ website just syncing to my personal computer.

                                                                                                                                                      It is at least a conceptual start. We'll see where it leads.

                                                                                                                                                      defensive design

                                                                                                                                                      26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                      Design for when things go wrong Getting Real

                                                                                                                                                      Defensive design is like defensive driving. The same way drivers must always be on the lookout for slick roads, reckless drivers, and other dangerous scenarios, site builders must constantly search for trouble spots that cause visitors confusion and frustration. Good site defense can make or break the customer experience.

                                                                                                                                                      Define Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                      27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                      Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                      Define Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                      When I talk about sustainability, I'm talking about these mindsets.

                                                                                                                                                      • The Triple Bottom Line
                                                                                                                                                        • separate but additive; each space has potential for sustainability, and the goal is for hitting the overlap of all three sustainabilities, but you can focus on one without the others (there in lies the problem).
                                                                                                                                                        • This is "sustainability in practice"
                                                                                                                                                      • Nested: Economy within Society within Nature
                                                                                                                                                        • holistic; everything is a decision within nature.
                                                                                                                                                        • If you frame everything this way, you can't accidentally leave out a kind of sustainability.
                                                                                                                                                        • Everything Is Connected

                                                                                                                                                      Here are some other Definitions of Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                      • Any action that does not degrade the systems supporting it
                                                                                                                                                      • Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
                                                                                                                                                      • Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do. / Paul Hawken
                                                                                                                                                      • Do unto others as you would have them do to you. / The Golden Rule (or the ethic of reciprocity), Originally attributed to Confucious
                                                                                                                                                      • Equity over time. Think of it as extending the Golden rule through time … Do unto future generations as you would have them do unto you. / Robert Gilman, the Context Institute
                                                                                                                                                      • Living and working together for a common good. / The Japanese principle of “Kyosei
                                                                                                                                                      • Don't eat your seed corn. / Farmer Colloquialism
                                                                                                                                                      • Improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of life’s supporting systems.
                                                                                                                                                      • Understanding the interconnections among the economy, our society, and the environment.
                                                                                                                                                      • Living within limits
                                                                                                                                                      • Accounting for the present AND the future
                                                                                                                                                      • Leaving the world better than we found it
                                                                                                                                                      • Affluence without guilt, not sacrifice and restriction / Alex Steffen, founder of WorldChanging.

                                                                                                                                                      Define: Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                      23rd August 2021 at 4:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                      Learning Design for Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                      From https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-design-for-sustainability/understanding-the-basics-of-sustainability?u=56743745

                                                                                                                                                      Sustainability, related to Definitions of Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                      Cambridge dictionary: The ability to conitnue at a particular level for a period of time

                                                                                                                                                      Brundtland report:

                                                                                                                                                      "Our common future"

                                                                                                                                                      Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

                                                                                                                                                      BRUNDTLAND COMMISION, 1987.

                                                                                                                                                      Defining Sustainable Graphic Design

                                                                                                                                                      27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                      Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                      In the 2013 book Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability, John Ehrenfeld writes “The key to doing something about sustainability is that you first have to say what it is that you want to sustain.” To define sustainable graphic design we must first define what it is we are sustaining.

                                                                                                                                                      If sustainable graphic design is design in service of what we want to sustain, how do you decide what's worth sustaining? (because, if we pick the wrong thing, say we want to sustain the status quo, then that is what sustainable graphic design is — hmmm!?).

                                                                                                                                                      Ehrenfeld answers that for us too. He wants to sustain “that all humans and other life should flourish.”

                                                                                                                                                      Designer Bruce Mau had a similar goal for the Massive Change project: “Our project is the welfare of all life as a practical objective.” (design for the welfare of all life)

                                                                                                                                                      This is what we'll use as our definition of Sustainable Graphic Design for the remainder of the talk: Sustainable graphic design is “graphic design in support of all life flourishing,” or, “graphic design for the welfare of all life.”

                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                      20th July 2021 at 11:28pm
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                                                                                                                                                      Definitions of Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 1:03am
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                                                                                                                                                      • Any action that does not degrade the systems supporting it
                                                                                                                                                      • Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
                                                                                                                                                      • Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do. / Paul Hawken
                                                                                                                                                      • Do unto others as you would have them do to you. / The Golden Rule (or the ethic of reciprocity), Originally attributed to Confucious
                                                                                                                                                      • Equity over time. Think of it as extending the Golden rule through time … Do unto future generations as you would have them do unto you. / Robert Gilman, the Context Institute
                                                                                                                                                      • Living and working together for a common good. / The Japanese principle of “Kyosei
                                                                                                                                                      • Don't eat your seed corn. / Farmer Colloquialism
                                                                                                                                                      • Improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of life’s supporting systems.
                                                                                                                                                      • Understanding the interconnections among the economy, our society, and the environment.
                                                                                                                                                      • Living within limits
                                                                                                                                                      • Accounting for the present AND the future
                                                                                                                                                      • Leaving the world better than we found it
                                                                                                                                                      • Affluence without guilt, not sacrifice and restriction / Alex Steffen, founder of WorldChanging.

                                                                                                                                                      Design

                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 11:30pm
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                                                                                                                                                      Design & Hacking

                                                                                                                                                      12th August 2021 at 2:05pm
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                                                                                                                                                      Quote The Bits That Make Up A Design Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                      In order to meaningfully shape the future, design must challenge and overturn entrenched systems, not simply create new packages for yesterday’s ideas.

                                                                                                                                                      If design is treated as a neutral or implicitly good activity, it becomes merely a function of marketing and advertising. For design to be the radical activity that it can and should be, it must incorporate the spirit of hacking.

                                                                                                                                                      from https://chad.is/design-hacking/ by Chad Mazzola

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                                                                                                                                                        Design does not exist for its own sake, but reveals its relevance and meaning in our everyday life.

                                                                                                                                                        14th July 2021 at 11:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                          design for the welfare of all life

                                                                                                                                                          22nd June 2021 at 10:19am
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                                                                                                                                                          The ultimate goal of The Sustainabilitist

                                                                                                                                                          A Bruce Mauism from Massive Change

                                                                                                                                                          Design for when things go wrong

                                                                                                                                                          26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                          Getting Real

                                                                                                                                                          https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/09.5-get-defensive

                                                                                                                                                          No matter how carefully you design your app, no matter how much testing you do, customers will still encounter problems. So how do you handle these inevitable breakdowns? With defensive design.

                                                                                                                                                          Remember: Your app may work great 90% of the time. But if you abandon customers in their time of need, they’re unlikely to forget it.

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                                                                                                                                                            Design has helped to change the world

                                                                                                                                                            22nd July 2021 at 12:43am
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                                                                                                                                                            Design has helped to change the world (for better or worse) in gigantic, important ways. Whatever happens next, the world will not be like it is today!

                                                                                                                                                            Design HAS to have a solution

                                                                                                                                                            22nd July 2021 at 11:17pm
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                                                                                                                                                            The Bits That Make Up A Design Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                            Design has to have a solution.

                                                                                                                                                            If designing is problem solving, then design has to have a solution?

                                                                                                                                                            Design is a bizarre field that puts you in contact with so many different things that aren't always meant to be in contact!?

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                                                                                                                                                            Design is only design if it communicates knowledge

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                                                                                                                                                              Design Maths

                                                                                                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                              Design as an act of removal instead of an act of addition

                                                                                                                                                              Design Relativity… Some Thoughts.

                                                                                                                                                              25th June 2021 at 1:14am
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                                                                                                                                                              Kristian Bjornard

                                                                                                                                                              Most graphic design solutions are relative: Ten graphic designers given the same request will come up with ten different solutions. Some might be “better” than others, but if the designers are sufficiently skilled, they will all be workable, usable solutions. Let’s presume this is a logo for something — maybe a bakery — each designer is likely to pick a different typeface or a different play on a loaf of bread or oven or wheat stalk to use. There isn’t a “right” answer.

                                                                                                                                                              I find something frustrating about this.

                                                                                                                                                              This makes me feel like what I do is magical, yet meaningless. It’s all relative — a different point of view yields a different outcome, yet we have no “speed of light” against which to measure or compare aesthetics.

                                                                                                                                                              What I see in my mind when I hear a client say they want “simple and professional” solutions is likely to be different than that of another designer. On the one hand this is great — freedom and individuality really can reign. On another, it proves that most of the job of a designer is subjective and meaningless. Style is an irrelevant concern. If ten different people can come to ten different aesthetic conclusions for a single “problem” that doesn’t seem to me to say “there is definitive evidence that this solution matters…”

                                                                                                                                                              I might pick one typeface, my friend Tony another, my friend Kim another, and my friend Amanda yet another. Any of the four could be made into a more than acceptable, simple, professional solution.

                                                                                                                                                              This begins to seem to me arbitrary decision. Another 100 typefaces or symbols can be seemingly randomly chosen and still made to work. How does this show that what I do actually matters?

                                                                                                                                                              When all choices are arbitrary, then how do you make a choice?

                                                                                                                                                              Design Resource

                                                                                                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                              Definition Resource

                                                                                                                                                              A special type of Resource specifically required to do something DESIGN related

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                                                                                                                                                              Design, When Everybody Designs

                                                                                                                                                              20th August 2021 at 9:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                              Designed Writings

                                                                                                                                                              6th July 2021 at 12:16am
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                                                                                                                                                              A process I practiced for a while where I designed slide/pages... I would write tidbits, design that, then build on top and add, edit, overwrite as the slides/pages went on... sort of mini visual essays?

                                                                                                                                                              Designers Accord

                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                              Climate Designers Framework Manifesto Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                              Valerie Casey

                                                                                                                                                              from http://www.designersaccord.org/:

                                                                                                                                                              The Designers Accord was created in late 2007 and dissolved in 2018. It was conducted in two phases: first as a five-year project to mainstream sustainability in the global creative community, and next as a channel to conduct selective projects.

                                                                                                                                                              Formed as a distributed knowledge network of designers, design firms, university art programs, and creative businesses, the Designers Accord has helped advance the conversation around the ethics, practices, and responsibilities of the creative community.

                                                                                                                                                              Almost half a million designers from all over the world participated in the Designers Accord. It has been featured in articles, books, exhibitions, tv, radio, and curricula on design, sustainability, and innovation.

                                                                                                                                                              Adopters of the Designers Accord commit to five guidelines that provide collective and individual ways to integrate sustainability into design. Our focus is on creating positive impact in the creative community by connecting a broad network throughout the creative community, inspiring and motivating our members to share best practices, bold ideas, and compelling case studies, and enabling new initiatives to grow from the foundation built by the Designers Accord.

                                                                                                                                                              The three primary goals of the first five-year project of the Designers Accord were:

                                                                                                                                                              • Engaging all members of the creative community in a dialogue about the importance of integrating the principles of sustainability in all practice and production.
                                                                                                                                                              • Evolving design education, and supporting ongoing professional development.
                                                                                                                                                              • Bringing the power of systems thinking and design thinking to higher-order strategic challenges.

                                                                                                                                                              Designers of Paradise

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                                                                                                                                                              Designers Taking Climate Action

                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 11:51pm
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                                                                                                                                                              Climate Designers The Sustainabilitist

                                                                                                                                                              Provide Resources for designers to take climate action in their work.

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                                                                                                                                                                Designing Design

                                                                                                                                                                19th June 2021 at 12:25am
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                                                                                                                                                                Designing Design Teaching

                                                                                                                                                                25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                                                                Essays Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                Caveat

                                                                                                                                                                • **Caveat 1.** I didn’t ever take any “design” classes in my history as a student or designer until grad school, and then those weren’t really traditional design classes; also my Graduate Teaching Assistant positions were not for what would be considered design courses either.
                                                                                                                                                                • **Caveat 2.** I went to a liberal arts school, not an art/design school. While it was roughly the same size as MICA, the structure was obviously totally different; my perspective is definitely different because of that.
                                                                                                                                                                • **Caveat 3.** I studied mainly math/physics as an undergrad, and then a lot of traditional studio art classes — predominantly in painting and drawing. So I’m trying to merge those things into what “design teaching” is supposed to be…

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                                                                                                                                                                I’ve been having this general feeling that I’ve been trying to make my classes too much like a math or science courses in that there has to be all this super technical time for seeing how a tool is used or how a specific kind of effect is achieved. This results in my being in front of the class the whole time just talking and presenting and clicking on the computer. But in a math class we would do that for about an hour 2 or 3 days per week, and then as students we would go back on our own (or in small study groups) and do equations over and over again as homework. Running a 6 hour block of all technical demos is so much work for me, isn’t too engaging for the students, and doesn’t easily provide ways to do it over again as “homework.”

                                                                                                                                                                So instead I’ve been trying more of studio approach like what I remember from painting and drawing classes. Basically, how quickly can I show the general idea, and then how quickly can the students get into playing around with the technique or idea in a way where they feel comfortable continuing to play and experiment and just make — even if we aren’t in the classroom anymore.

                                                                                                                                                                My remembrance of my painting courses was that the point was mainly just to practice painting. We’d start with 10–20 minutes of slides and maybe some technique (like this is what an underpainting is), and then we spent all of class the next couple weeks working on some painting that used that technique (probably with another 10 or 20 minute presentation or demo each class that still related to whatever we were doing). Practicing Painting — that made sense — how does a class where practicing designing happens work? the same way? Can you practice designing agnostic of techniques or tools? And, how are the demos and lectures kept short?

                                                                                                                                                                If I didn’t “get” one painting technique it didn’t mean that come the next week or next technique I couldn’t move on — I just kept practicing (and maybe I just didn’t like a couple of my paintings too much). The goal wasn’t to build a portfolio, but to build skill and confidence that I could paint whatever and however I wanted after painting class was over. That’s how assignments worked too — paint what you like for the next 3 weeks, the constraint being that you must use underpainting as your process; and then the next assignment is a new technique or new process, but the content is still all yours to decide. Drawing and Photo classes I took I remember operating in similar ways.

                                                                                                                                                                These were amorphous, blobby classes where concrete skills were learned, but not necessarily “taught” as the focus. It was craft based, and one had to really practice that craft. Conceptually everything was pretty much open, there were just a handful of constraints that ended up providing the “teaching.” Things would sometimes build upon each other, but sometimes would seem totally disjointed. The goal was presenting as many directions as was possible in a semester.

                                                                                                                                                                Alternately, the math and physics classes I took were totally linear and constrained — you had to get what happened on class day A to do what happens next on class day B, and then C, and then D, etc. If you missed something or were confused by something week 1 and never figured it out, you were more than likely going to be totally out of luck come the next test, the final, or the next semester.

                                                                                                                                                                You had get calc 1 to move onto calc 2; You had to get linear algebra to get field vectors; what you learned in electronics and electro-magnetism 1 directly led into electronics and electro-magnetism 2 — down to what chapter of a textbook you left off on and started back up from the next term.

                                                                                                                                                                Design teaching — especially today with so many technological aspects — really feels like it is living in this weird overlap between these two worlds. Typography and gestalt are still more or less the same, there are just so many new places for them to be considered, and so many new ways for forms to be made into, digitally and physically.

                                                                                                                                                                How do we keep a semblance of strict order and hierarchy to what needs to be learned — I mean we have Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 — this seems like it should relate to some “linear” progression where each level is more complex. But when I hear what people do in their sections of these things there doesn’t always seems to be coherence, and there is also often a different idea as to what complex or simple typographic skills even are. The same with GD1, 2, 3, & 4, what is the progression in these classes? conceptual? technical? Perhaps thinking of “design at MICA” as some sort of Vector with a magnitude and direction — how do type 1,2,3 and then GD1, 2, 3, & 4 create and add to the vector as a whole?

                                                                                                                                                                Possible ways forward can veer multiple directions: either everyone has to teach everything in terms of the new technologies — every faculty has to become proficient in everything, and stay up to date with everything; or, no one person teaches a whole section of a class so that each faculty’s specialty or interest is present in each section of every required, foundational, GD track course.

                                                                                                                                                                Perhaps part of the solutions is that Type 1 can no longer be 5, 6, or 7 different sections meeting at different times and different days. I remember that my Physics 1 course, which was required for Biology, Chemistry and Physics majors, was in a giant lecture hall with 150 students and 3 faculty doing different sub-pieces of the course over the term. This provided many possibilities for all the students, and there were still required labs on different days where you were able to get small group interaction directly with a faculty as well as structured time to practice what we observed from the lectures and problem solving demonstrations. This seems like a model that could be worth investigating from the point of view of offering many different potentials early on, and might have better correlation to the technicality of design vs. things like drawing or painting.

                                                                                                                                                                Also, the calculus I learned in Calc 1+2 was then put directly to use in Physics 1+2. We didn’t go over again how to do the integrals from calculus class in Physics class, just learned equations that put integration to use. Maybe our various design classes offered at similar times are missing this connection? Is what is happening in Type 2 meaningful for GD2 and vice versa?

                                                                                                                                                                One last thing at issue that we don’t really talk about much is that the students seem crazy busy. I’ve never had so many students with outside jobs or so concerned with money and time. So many of them have to work jobs outside of class; so many appear to have huge quantities of homework for individual classes — sometimes it seems like certain professors presume the students are only taking their class.

                                                                                                                                                                So many of our design projects are really big picture projects. Trying to cram it into a few weeks several times per term even wears me out. Maybe that is a way to make the connections between classes. Shared projects across courses might help to mitigate some of these busy-ness issues and give the students more opportunities not to do less work, but to feel that they aren’t just sprinting each night to get the next day’s homework completed disconnected from everything else they are doing.

                                                                                                                                                                Anyway. I’m still trying to figure this out for myself, but in general this thought process has made me feel that my classroom situations are going a little bit more smoothly.

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                                                                                                                                                                  Designing Designing

                                                                                                                                                                  13th August 2021 at 3:16pm
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                                                                                                                                                                  Designing has itself to be redesigned, continuously

                                                                                                                                                                  13th August 2021 at 3:17pm
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                                                                                                                                                                  “Designing, if it is to survive as an activity through which we transform our lives, on earth and beyond, has itself to be redesigned, continuously.”

                                                                                                                                                                  John Chris Jones, in Designing Designing. London, UK: Architecture Design and Technology Press (Longman Group UK Limited): 1991, pgs. xi–xii.

                                                                                                                                                                  Devon Halladay

                                                                                                                                                                  23rd June 2021 at 11:07pm
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                                                                                                                                                                  People Doing People Things

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                                                                                                                                                                    Dezeen Carbon Revolution

                                                                                                                                                                    17th August 2021 at 10:59pm
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                                                                                                                                                                    A major editorial series about carbon, exploring how this miracle material could be removed from the atmosphere and put to use on earth.

                                                                                                                                                                    dialectic

                                                                                                                                                                    22nd June 2021 at 11:03am
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                                                                                                                                                                      Did you know that you’re a designer whether you’ve studied within a design field or not?

                                                                                                                                                                      23rd June 2021 at 4:43pm
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                                                                                                                                                                      Did you know that you’re a designer whether you’ve studied within a design field or not? As a teacher, nurse, politician, graphic designer, etc., your “designs” (also known as plans or decisions) impact others. How can we make sure that you’re designing inclusive and equitable outcomes for all - no matter how big or small the decision?

                                                                                                                                                                      From: Field Guide: Equity-Centered Community Design

                                                                                                                                                                      Dieter Rams

                                                                                                                                                                      27th June 2021 at 5:04am
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                                                                                                                                                                      Designer, Modernist.

                                                                                                                                                                      Mythological scale important industrial designer. German. Visionary at Braun who helped bring simple modernism to everyday products. The way many objects look and work today is mostly due to his and his team's work from the 60s through the 80s…

                                                                                                                                                                      Author of Ten Principles for Good Design

                                                                                                                                                                      Diversity

                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                      Embrace diversity: it makes life more interesting. Nature has no overarching solution. We should stop looking for one-size-fits all solutions. The only universal shall be Sustainability. People, cultures and localities are all different, requiring different solutions.

                                                                                                                                                                      Do different tools always mean different outcomes?

                                                                                                                                                                      6th August 2021 at 3:41pm
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                                                                                                                                                                      Shit – is there a way to get these images in here? on here? keep them in the repo? should they just be in dropbox and I link them in that way?

                                                                                                                                                                      Doing anything new, there is a pretty high risk that you are going to be wrong

                                                                                                                                                                      10th August 2021 at 9:20am
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                                                                                                                                                                      Doing Design is Important; Being a Designer is not.

                                                                                                                                                                      24th August 2021 at 11:26pm
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                                                                                                                                                                      Don't Duplicate, Create

                                                                                                                                                                      14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                                      Cheryl D Miller

                                                                                                                                                                      Don't be a duplicator, be a creator!?

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                                                                                                                                                                        Donald Knuth

                                                                                                                                                                        22nd June 2021 at 10:33am
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                                                                                                                                                                        Creator of TeX and Metafont

                                                                                                                                                                        All around computer programming legend.

                                                                                                                                                                        Believes that no one person should "own" computer code... Need to find this actual reference/statement??? But something about it being a gift from god.

                                                                                                                                                                        draw down

                                                                                                                                                                        19th July 2021 at 2:43pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        Drawing carbon dioxide down out of the atmosphere. Draw down carbon dioxide and get it into carbon sinks

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                                                                                                                                                                        drawdown

                                                                                                                                                                        1st October 2021 at 2:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        Definition

                                                                                                                                                                        Drawing carbon dioxide down out of the atmosphere. Draw down carbon dioxide and get it into carbon sinks

                                                                                                                                                                        from Project Drawdown:

                                                                                                                                                                        Drawdown is defined as the moment when atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations stop climbing, and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping future climate change.

                                                                                                                                                                        Making the CO2 ppm LESS instead of MORE

                                                                                                                                                                        should this be draw down as two words? or just one word?

                                                                                                                                                                        Drawdown.org

                                                                                                                                                                        22nd June 2021 at 10:23am
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                                                                                                                                                                        Website for Project Drawdown

                                                                                                                                                                        Dreams create the Future

                                                                                                                                                                        22nd July 2021 at 11:12pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        "There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow." —Victor Hugo

                                                                                                                                                                        Driving Concepts

                                                                                                                                                                        26th July 2021 at 1:16pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        Dunne and Raby

                                                                                                                                                                        30th September 2021 at 1:46am
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                                                                                                                                                                        Durability

                                                                                                                                                                        2nd November 2021 at 2:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        A cathedral was built to withstand the rigors of the temporal; a water bottle is not — it should be designed to disappear. Each design decision in material and use should make the choice between “durable or ephemeral.”

                                                                                                                                                                        From Another's Sustainabilitist Principles / https://sustainabilitist.com/framework/#principles

                                                                                                                                                                        Sustainable practices can last a long time, sometimes even up to perpetuity without collapsing.

                                                                                                                                                                        Example: Use of 100% ceramic cookware

                                                                                                                                                                        Dyptych Poster Prompt

                                                                                                                                                                        22nd July 2021 at 11:21pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        PART 1

                                                                                                                                                                        An experimental, expressive graphic exploration that responds to the source material: Drawdown.org

                                                                                                                                                                        • Slideshow with bibliography
                                                                                                                                                                        • 20 experimental compositions, explore type only, image only and type and image combined

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                                                                                                                                                                        PART 2

                                                                                                                                                                        Two posters that create a dialogue about your topic and that challenge your audience to think critically.

                                                                                                                                                                        • 2 printed or animated posters, sized to your discretion.
                                                                                                                                                                        • Each poster must use:
                                                                                                                                                                          • a grid
                                                                                                                                                                          • 3 levels of hierarchy including a heading
                                                                                                                                                                          • 200 words of text
                                                                                                                                                                          • at least one image.

                                                                                                                                                                        What all of this means of course is up to you: the size, grid, etc. should all make sense based on your approach... how can you "make meaning" through selecting these design elements – not just through your text/image choices?

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                                                                                                                                                                        E. O. Wilson

                                                                                                                                                                        20th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        Edward Osborne Wilson, Naturalist and Biologist and Writer and Environmental advocate. One of the main leaders of the Half Earth project.

                                                                                                                                                                        Each question I pose myself usually results in more questions

                                                                                                                                                                        22nd June 2021 at 10:27am
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                                                                                                                                                                        So Many Questions

                                                                                                                                                                        EAD

                                                                                                                                                                        31st August 2021 at 3:28pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        EAD: Essay A Day – can I actually do this? why am I double tagging all these things!?

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                                                                                                                                                                        Earth Overshoot Day

                                                                                                                                                                        14th August 2021 at 11:16pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. In 2021, it fell on July 29.

                                                                                                                                                                        Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need

                                                                                                                                                                        8th July 2021 at 2:47pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. – Mahatma Gandhi

                                                                                                                                                                        Eclecticism is a reaction to the hegemony of modernsim

                                                                                                                                                                        14th July 2021 at 11:22pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        It is important to recognize that that eclecticism was already a reaction to the hegemony of the photographic, typographic modernism established by the fifties generation of designers, such as Sutnar, Beall, Rand, Burtin, and Golden.10

                                                                                                                                                                        Ecologist Vs. Environmentalist?

                                                                                                                                                                        20th August 2021 at 12:24am
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                                                                                                                                                                        Ecovention

                                                                                                                                                                        24th September 2021 at 4:00pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        Ecovention was a term invented by Amy Lipton and Sue Spaid in 1999 to refer to an ecological art intervention in environmental degradation. The Ecovention movement in art is associated with land art, earthworks, and environmental art, and landscape architecture, but remains its own distinct category. Many ecoventions bear tendencies similar to public works projects such as sewage and waste-water treatment plants, public gardens, landfills, mines, and sustainable building projects.

                                                                                                                                                                        Ecovention Europe

                                                                                                                                                                        30th September 2021 at 2:02am
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                                                                                                                                                                        follow up to Green Acres

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                                                                                                                                                                        Edible Forest

                                                                                                                                                                        21st August 2021 at 10:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                        Also referred to as a Food Forest. The idea that a forest can be cared for in away that both protects biodiversity AND provides food. An important aspect of Permaculture.

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                                                                                                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 10:28am
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                                                                                                                                                                        tiddlyWiki

                                                                                                                                                                        Plugin for helping autocomplete links and such

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                                                                                                                                                                          Editions At Play

                                                                                                                                                                          31st July 2021 at 2:27pm
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                                                                                                                                                                          Tea Uglow's team at google working on this...

                                                                                                                                                                          Alternative ideas for what a Book might be.

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                                                                                                                                                                            Education

                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                            For our sustainabilitist ideals’ acceptance, they must first be presented and understood by the populous. Presenting the possibility of change brings us one step closer to inciting said change. Easy, understandable ways are best—especially those avoiding condescension.

                                                                                                                                                                            Edwin Datschefski

                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 10:12am
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                                                                                                                                                                            Consultant providing sustainability related advice for designed objects

                                                                                                                                                                            Elegance

                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                            Wealthy “elegance” abounds, but true Elegance appears when simplicity and craft are used to solve everyday problems. Sustainabilitists desire ease and grace in all situations.

                                                                                                                                                                            Elitist Trap

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                                                                                                                                                                            26th July 2021 at 12:55pm
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                                                                                                                                                                            The harder we tighten things down, the less room there is for a creative, emergent solution.

                                                                                                                                                                            —Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers

                                                                                                                                                                            Empowerment Education

                                                                                                                                                                            6th July 2021 at 12:32am
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                                                                                                                                                                            Definition Educational Model

                                                                                                                                                                            Emphasize the equality of Teachers and Students.

                                                                                                                                                                            Remove the idea of a classroom hierarchy — we are all here to learn from each other.

                                                                                                                                                                            Energy Security

                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                            Entropy

                                                                                                                                                                            6th July 2021 at 12:08am
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                                                                                                                                                                            The universe moves towards chaos. This is something we should embrace. Design seeks order, and the order of the universe is a controlled degradation.

                                                                                                                                                                            environmental sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                            Environmentalism

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                                                                                                                                                                            Enzo Mari

                                                                                                                                                                            15th July 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                            One of my favorite designers, period.

                                                                                                                                                                            He made furniture, objects, books, posters, art, and wonderful ideas.

                                                                                                                                                                            Ephemerality

                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                            Principle

                                                                                                                                                                            A cathedral was built to withstand the rigors of the temporal; a water bottle is not — it should be designed to disappear. Each design decision in material and use should make the choice between “durable or ephemeral.”

                                                                                                                                                                            From Another's Sustainabilitist Principles / https://sustainabilitist.com/framework/#principles

                                                                                                                                                                            Sustainable practices can last a long time, sometimes even up to perpetuity without collapsing.

                                                                                                                                                                            Example: Use of 100% ceramic cookware

                                                                                                                                                                            Equity of Design Software

                                                                                                                                                                            23rd June 2021 at 11:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                            F/LOS

                                                                                                                                                                            If you can't afford your "rent" for the tools, you get evicted from the design industry...

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                                                                                                                                                                              Eric Benson

                                                                                                                                                                              22nd June 2021 at 10:54am
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                                                                                                                                                                              Climate Designers People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                              Erik Van Lennep

                                                                                                                                                                              21st August 2021 at 10:25pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                Essays

                                                                                                                                                                                19th July 2021 at 1:59pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                Essentials Only

                                                                                                                                                                                26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                Getting Real

                                                                                                                                                                                The best designers and the best programmers aren’t the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn’t matter. That’s where the real gains are made.

                                                                                                                                                                                Most of the time you spend is wasted on things that just don’t matter. If you can cut out the work and thinking that just don’t matter, you’ll achieve productivity you’ve never imagined.

                                                                                                                                                                                etc.usf.edu/clipart

                                                                                                                                                                                15th July 2021 at 10:35pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                University of South Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse

                                                                                                                                                                                Clipart free for academic use. Mostly taken from scans of old public domain books in the USF library?

                                                                                                                                                                                Ethics For Design

                                                                                                                                                                                17th June 2021 at 11:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                Documentary trying to capture how designers might bring their practices to more ethically influenced places!?

                                                                                                                                                                                http://www.ethicsfordesign.com/player?lang=en

                                                                                                                                                                                Everyone is going carbon neutral these days

                                                                                                                                                                                2nd September 2021 at 1:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                Everything Bucky Knows

                                                                                                                                                                                16th June 2021 at 12:18am
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                                                                                                                                                                                Random sentences from R. Buckminster Fuller's 42-hour lecture entitled: Everything I Know.

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                                                                                                                                                                                Everything I Know

                                                                                                                                                                                23rd June 2021 at 4:47pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                42 hour lecture by R. Buckminster Fuller

                                                                                                                                                                                This holds mythological status.

                                                                                                                                                                                Everything Is Connected

                                                                                                                                                                                20th July 2021 at 11:18pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                Something I tend to say alot. This is important to understand for the greater, high level consideration of sustainability. Understanding that all energy is finite, that matter transmutes back and forth from energy, that a choice isn't just limited to the small scope in front of you, that we are all passengers on Spaceship Earth

                                                                                                                                                                                This also is related to The Triple Bottom Line — It's sort of an addendum philosophy to bring that into better focus. Spaceship Earth, Nature, contains everything! Our economy would not exist without society; our society cannot exist without nature. The economy is a construct of society, society is a construct of nature… What's the term in physics? emergent? Nature is fundamental – society and economy are emergent from nature... In this way, any economic choice IS a societal choice; and is also an environmental choice.

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                                                                                                                                                                                Everything should be as simple as possible

                                                                                                                                                                                22nd July 2021 at 12:26am
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                                                                                                                                                                                DesignADay Quote

                                                                                                                                                                                Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

                                                                                                                                                                                attributed to Albert Einstein

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                                                                                                                                                                                  Example: Green Acres

                                                                                                                                                                                  30th September 2021 at 1:45am
                                                                                                                                                                                  Word Count: 156
                                                                                                                                                                                  Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                                                  Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses, and Abandoned Lots was a book I worked on with my friend and curator Sue Spaid, for the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, OH. Green Acres featured artists using farming as their art practice.

                                                                                                                                                                                  The goal: make the resultant book "sustainable." These were sustainability focused artists, how could I represent their ecological inventiveness in a printed book? The things that made the production of this book "sustainable" were that it was printed on demand, and used recycled, unbleached paper.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Visually, the book's design was meant to be _critical_; the juxtaposition of small art farm graphics vs. giant commercial farm references via a constrained square grid and the aerial commercial farmland photography. (» Critical Design)

                                                                                                                                                                                  While the book intends to say something different, it conforms to common standards of "good" modernist layout. Other than a minor production method improvement, it's the same … ! Is it Sustainable Graphic Design?

                                                                                                                                                                                  Example: MICA Grad Zine

                                                                                                                                                                                  27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                                                  This is an interim piece for the MICA graduate admissions office. Visually the goal was to convey the diversity of graduate programs, as well as some of the current chaos of our present. Different graduate directors were trying to convey the values of their programs, could the visuals contribute to that. AND, there was an ask for the piece to embrace "sustainability."

                                                                                                                                                                                  So, the design decisions are all spurred by those constraints. Free, open, accessible culture is an important value of mine, and that makes its way into this via the imagery selected and the open source fonts. This also gave me ways to find "art historically" relevant images, and repurpose them to my meaning making.

                                                                                                                                                                                  The printing solution was designed to minimize printing waste — the front and back of this "poster" are printed all as one plate, so the press sheet goes through the press once, then is flipped over, and goes through the press again, voila. This means front and back of the pages were able to all be printed with one plate per color instead of two or more… All of these "values" intermingled here together, do they add up to a sustainable design? a beautiful design?

                                                                                                                                                                                  Excelsior

                                                                                                                                                                                  9th August 2021 at 1:23pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Poem Source

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                                                                                                                                                                                    Experience TiddlyWiki Fluency

                                                                                                                                                                                    25th June 2021 at 12:43am
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                                                                                                                                                                                    Help

                                                                                                                                                                                    Experience TiddlyWiki Fluency: Creating a Reading List

                                                                                                                                                                                    Amazing video tutorial by Soren Bjornstad

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                                                                                                                                                                                      Extra Thoughts on CAPE

                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:42pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                      CAPE Pure Content Writing
                                                                                                                                                                                      Year
                                                                                                                                                                                      2014

                                                                                                                                                                                      Some thoughts

                                                                                                                                                                                      The process required to make any of these Create Anywhere Publish Everywhere ideas “work” rely on a person being proficient over a wide array of technical skills. These experiments have been about building new tools and connecting disparate esoteric tools, not just about using existing standard equipment. This means that as a solution, CAPE is not yet completely viable for everyday use…

                                                                                                                                                                                      However, The idea is sound. But, in its current form it either needs a user with wide skill sets, or a team of people to make things come together. The team is probably the most sensible way to think about using CAPE. As a design department we have all the people to form a “team” allowing the kinds of skills crossover.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Create Anywhere, Publish Everywhere can also be a metaphor for how our design department can grow and evolve. One of CAPE's aims is at platform agnosticism.

                                                                                                                                                                                      The purer the content, the less reliant on a specific tool, technology or piece of software the content is to be distributed. The trick is figuring out the formats that allow for maximum interoperability and future-proofness. Right now that appears to be simple image formats (like jpg), plaintext, and then a variety of coding formats — html, xml, json, and yaml. With content in mostly these kinds of formats it can easily be sent to wherever it is desired, as well as easily reformatted for other languages/formats, or reprocessed for new uses.

                                                                                                                                                                                      CAPE respects specialization. It respects uniqueness. While the goal is content purity, the content can start anywhere. As long as you have people or tools that understand how to convert from one format to another, the content can be created in whatever tool you like. The purer the tools however, the better. InDesign in and of itself isn't the pure. Neither is Word. However, Indesign can be made "pure" by using the export to xml feature, once a person has gone through the trouble of tagging properly all the content in the InDesign document. This is not as easily the case for Word. I believe that no one should use Microsoft Word.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Google Docs are problematic too — they just give you too much ability to style and weirdly format things. Too much presentational power, not enough purely structural power. Interestingly, writing in a google spreadsheet yields more usable, “pure” content than writing in a google doc. The reason? Less ability to stylize. Most spreadsheet cells are really only plaintext.

                                                                                                                                                                                      CAPE cares about Data. It cares about content. Formats that care about structure are what are most useful. But un-stylized structure is key. You then need tools that can maintain the structure while allowing you to hook styles onto that structure.

                                                                                                                                                                                      F/LOS

                                                                                                                                                                                      23rd June 2021 at 11:10pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                      F/LOS Daily Introduction

                                                                                                                                                                                      6th September 2021 at 4:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                      F/LOS Daily: Towards an Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                      This essay takes Free/Libre Open Source (F/LOS) as a lens to rethink design practice and pedagogy. The paper provides an overview of F/LOS concepts, figures, and thinking. The narrative inter-connects these concepts with historical design precedent and outcomes from a new class, “Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source.” The essay ends with thoughts for how design practice and pedagogy improve by adopting F/LOS.

                                                                                                                                                                                      F/LOS Daily: Bibliography

                                                                                                                                                                                      6th September 2021 at 4:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                      F/LOS Daily: Towards an Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                      F/LOS Daily: Conclusion

                                                                                                                                                                                      6th September 2021 at 4:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                      F/LOS Daily: Towards an Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                      We as visual designers are not precluded from accessing the techniques and ideas of F/LOS. Graphic Designers can integrate F/LOS into their practice both pragmatically and conceptually: more and more (and better and better) tools exist from this realm (Github, Inkscape, Nodebox, etc.). F/LOS offers chances for design as a social critique; design that returns to unselfconcious, vernacular roots (open source isn’t new, it is basically the way that human creative endeavors have historically come into existence ); and design that serves more than just stereotypical clients and business needs (or, can serve those needs, but even better (faster and w/ less bugs!)). In choosing F/LOS alternatives in software a designer can say “I (and my tools) have different ethics than you (and your tools).” Designer’s adopting F/LOS critique the status quo. And even simply trying to make things with F/LOSS makes us better designers. Experiencing (or struggling with) new tools reminds that “goodness” in an interface, typeface or other artifact is often based on familiarity — when things do not behave as expected they appear less good, whether or not this is objectively true.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Making with F/LOS tools and ideals has pedagogical implications: all designers become teachers and students. A design file that one can open up and poke around in is useful for anyone to learn from (how’d they organize these layers? what makes that loopity-loop animate?). Since everyone can see the source code information transfer can go back and forth through many different paths, not just from the top down. F/LOS tools are also likely to use open file formats that can be used across a wide variety of other tools and mediums — so you aren’t locked into one program (even if the program’s filetype is specific, the many filetypes are really some type of XML, so you can still “read” the file with a text editor to get what is going on). It’s not just having access to files that is important, deciding to use F/LOSS means you have access to more kinds of tools; more options for making are available. There are F/LOS tools that do not exist in offerings from Adobe or Autodesk (the Spiro spline drawing tool which finds its way into InkScape and FontForge, or generative design tools like NodeBox and Processing). Seeing other kinds of vector drawing options might open space for one to make new things. If you believe that as an educator part of your role is to build on the knowledge of the past to create new knowledge you must adopt F/LOS.

                                                                                                                                                                                      The Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source class meandered along over the the term — but always in the direction of becoming more open; more libre. Despite not always being able to be fully libre (Richard Stallman would not have approved all our methods or tools), we did come out at the end of the term with new points of view on what makes a graphic design practice “good.” To the students “goodness” in a design practice now includes being open to sharing one’s work (failures and successes; code, files, etc.). Goodness also means building on works when and where you can (and letting others build and re-use your works). By increasing the variety of tools and techniques at one’s disposal (by utilizing open source tools, even in addition to proprietary ones — students didn’t think we needed to fully abandon our old tools and operating systems to be “libre designers” — one massively increases possibilities for formal output) a design practice can be more good. And, goodness also means operating ethically — attempting to make your designs ethical in the context of the golden rule (do unto others…), or in egalitarian access, or in not enslaving or entrapping an audience to the will of a client or a designer.

                                                                                                                                                                                      So, the next time you go looking fonts, icons, templates, stock illustrations, or frameworks for a design project look for free/libre open source ones. F/LOS offers up not only a pragmatic approach reviving how we have historically created socio-cultural artifacts, but also a critical approach that through utilizing ideologically based software and tools intentionally positions itself in opposition to mainstream modern-techno-capitalism.

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                                                                                                                                                                                        F/LOS Daily: Towards an Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                        6th September 2021 at 4:40pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                        Essays F/LOS Lecture Published

                                                                                                                                                                                        Introduction

                                                                                                                                                                                        This essay takes Free/Libre Open Source (F/LOS) as a lens to rethink design practice and pedagogy. The paper provides an overview of F/LOS concepts, figures, and thinking. The narrative inter-connects these concepts with historical design precedent and outcomes from a new class, “Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source.” The essay ends with thoughts for how design practice and pedagogy improve by adopting F/LOS.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source

                                                                                                                                                                                        Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source ran from January to May of 2018 at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). The course asked students to explore F/LOS software and ideologies in producing graphic design. Other than “earnestly experiment with F/LOS tools,” the main projects were working with the MICA library on an identity and print materials, and collaboratively writing, designing, and printing a book that was exemplary of and about our F/LOS exercises and experiments. Each week we discussed how F/LOS’s ideas and technologies might serve the students’ (and the greater design communities) needs better than mainstream offerings.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Three lectures and workshops at MICA inspired the class’ origins. Loraine Furter and Eric Schrijver, members of a collective known as “Open Source Publishing,” ran two workshops: one using public domain resources in one’s design practice, and one customizing open source fonts. David Crossland of Google Fonts visited MICA and demoed new open source variable typefaces that Google and Type Network , collaborated on. Ending his lecture, Crossland explained how he ended up working at Google Fonts in the first place: being a lover and supporter of F/LOS. With Furter and Schrijver’s examples for how design practice might embrace F/LOS, and through casual conversation with Crossland about his libre font and software background, F/LOS ideals and tools felt like good exploratory territory for a graphic design course.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                        A search for “Open Source Design” online returns The Open Source Design Manifesto by Garth Braithwaite, a designer working on open source projects at Adobe. Braithwaite’s manifesto made a simple starting point in understanding how F/LOS impacts graphic design. The manifesto reads:

                                                                                                                                                                                        I will:

                                                                                                                                                                                        • find opportunities to design in the open
                                                                                                                                                                                        • share my design experiences; both the good and the bad
                                                                                                                                                                                        • find time for meaningful projects
                                                                                                                                                                                        • openly participate in design discussions
                                                                                                                                                                                        • work with other designers by choice
                                                                                                                                                                                        • improve my toolbox

                                                                                                                                                                                        In a 2013 talk called “Designers Can Open Source,” Braithwaite explains actions and behaviors designers might adopt for the “open-ness” the manifesto aims to inspire. The main tenant is to share more: “Sharing process, especially the failures, really helps” and “post as you are working, show how things evolve.” This creates an ecosystem where designers are more collaborative and more open with their neighbors — more unselfconscious — making design knowledge more effectively shared. Taking Braithwaite’s ideas to heart, our class made sharing and communicating a goal. To facilitate this we moved our class’ project files to repositories on Github (Braithwaite mentions Github as a tool for sharing and collaborating for codebases, we tried it for designing). We wanted to earnestly “design in the open.”

                                                                                                                                                                                        How Bazaar

                                                                                                                                                                                        Contemporary open source understanding (Braithwaite’ included) comes from Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. In the essay, Raymond analyzes Linus Torvalds’ (and his distributed hacker crew’s) development of the Linux Kernel. Raymond found magic in Torvald’s “release early, release often” mantra and distributed method of working. Raymond points to the maxim “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone,” or “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” as key to Linus’s (and Linux’s) success. Get as many self-selected, expert users as possible to tinker with a design; then ask those same users to share everything wrong they find. As fixes are made, redistribute updates as fast as possible back to the group. Problem finding and solving is accelerated (duplicate searches end quickly since redistribution of fixes is rapid). This was crucial to Linux’s stability and rapid improvement.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Braithwaite is encouraging designers to adopt the same shared, distributed model in hopes that many skilled eyes will also make light work. , Graphic designers aim to find the best visual solution to a problem, but do we show “buggy” ideas to clients, colleagues, or stake holders as part of our process in such an unselfconcious way? This is done easily within the classroom or in the studio between colleagues: hang work on the walls; pass designs between desks/desktops as they develop; look over each other’s shoulders. It can take place out in the world by using services like Dribbble, Behance, and Github. But, open designing is not about accruing comments like “cool!” or “nice work!” or “wow! what’s that great esoteric typeface!” The goal is real solutions to unsolved problems. Designers and audience members other than ourselves might see things differently, catch things we have missed, or have a solution waiting that we have not found on our own (or have not found yet, thus shortening our solution’s path).

                                                                                                                                                                                        Our Special Topics: Open Source class had moved our project files to Github, and we also decided to utilize Github’s issue queue to aid in communal problem solving — making sure we lent each other our eyes. Issues let a user reveal found problems to the “community” (in this case our class, but in general the maintainer and anyone else interested in a project) and then request help with solution finding. Peers peruse each other’s queues attempting aid by providing thoughts; sharing a tutorial; or downloading, tweaking, and re-publishing a fix. For our class, utilizing issue queues kept us a community beyond the classroom when at our homes or working from separate studios across campus. It was also incredibly complicated! For visual design projects the Github “distributed critique” made it hard to get deeper into each others’ experiments that just superficials; it was easy to provide basic visual feedback — asking a question isn’t hard; theorizing isn’t too much work; throwing up a screen shot or two is easy; a “this is working, that isn’t” is no problem. But, forking someone’s project, opening the files, and trying to make sense of design decisions AND understand the context and content of that direction? That required time that not many ended up undertaking. Our class found what most open source communities have found — a small percentage of the community are actually responsible for the majority of the work; most “members” merely download and attempt to use the software, code, utility, whatever, not actually help problem solve and improve.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Free Means Freedom

                                                                                                                                                                                        The community aspects that Braithwaite and Raymond point to are not all there is to F/LOS — and not all that might interest a Graphic Designer. Torvalds was working on the Linux Kernel to aid in the completing of a larger project: GNU. GNU was created by Richard Stallman as “an operating system that is free software — that is, it respects users’ freedom.” This is where the Free/Libre part of Free/Libre Open Source came from.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Stallman predicated Free software on the following essential freedoms:

                                                                                                                                                                                        • The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
                                                                                                                                                                                        • The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
                                                                                                                                                                                        • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
                                                                                                                                                                                        • The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

                                                                                                                                                                                        A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is non free.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Free software defined by Stallman values users, it does not want to enslave a user to the will of a program or the will of that program’s developer. Stallman’s motivation in 1983 was to maintain the share-and-share-alike, vernacular-like model computer programmers were accustomed to where all are able to build upon existing works. Stallman saw this under attack (most accounts claim that “free software” was birthed when Xerox asked a peer programmer not to share a printer’s source code with Stallman). He was also motivated by being a good citizen.

                                                                                                                                                                                        “I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.” — Richard Stallman

                                                                                                                                                                                        Braithwaite nor Raymond deal with any ethical points in their discussions or analysis of open source. Neither take point of view as to why making should be done this way other than that “open design” arrives at better designs while saving resources. But “better” in that context is about less bugs and faster improvements, not “better” morals. Corporate culture has embraced the “open source” part of F/LOS, , what about the Stallman-esque Free/Libre piece, does that have implications for designing?

                                                                                                                                                                                        In “Designer as Author” Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose that designers “develop a parallel design activity that questions and challenges industrial agendas.” This is design that is in opposition to mainstream culture. Stallman’s ideals play wonderfully with this “critical design” perspective — Stallman is promoting critical software. Free Software challenges proprietary software’s agendas. Designers fully embracing “free-ness” in their software end up precluding themselves from the normal range of design tools, but open themselves to new territory better representing socially conscious and sustainability related content (the ideology of respecting a user [an audience] matches nicely with a socially aware design practice). Switching one’s software in this context is a critical act.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Students in Special Topics: Open Source formulating practices around “design is political” or “design is ideological” found Stallman’s position more valuable than the pure pragmatics of Braithwaite’s “share more.” Using collective making to more rapidly come to a solution was not the important bit from F/LOS — the good citizen-ship was! That tools might now reflect one’s ethics was a valuable discovery. But, somewhat ironically, in adopting full libre practices for ideological reasons, collaboration can be more difficult. A peer’s set of tools may no longer be your tools. So, though F/LOS tools might not always be possible, protecting an audience member’s freedom is. Stallman’s golden rule still holds true: “… The Golden Rule requires that if I like a program [design] I must share it with other people who like it.”

                                                                                                                                                                                        The Special Topics: Open Source class collaborated with MICA’s library on new print and signage materials. The library thinks of itself as an open entity within the school — the ideals of Stallman’s and F/LOS at large are mirrored by the Library’s director and staff (free-ness of information, open access, collaboration, etc.). There were limitations to how “free” we could be — we had to create files with Adobe Creative Cloud (it is a standard toolset for MICA offices), and we had to use the institution’s fonts. Though software and fonts were non-free, students did still go to great lengths to find ways of using F/LOS content and the share-and-share alike mentalities. One student utilized the MICA library’s personal archives for imagery. These are often works in the public domain, with no known copyright holder, or that the MICA Library directly holds the rights to. Reusing and remixing in the vernacular/open source vein is now a possibility for future library works. The class used issue queues to help divide and assign work; and the library staff were able to have access to the repositories to provide some input. The MICA brand guidelines themselves can be made more powerful if following institutional “open sourcing” is the goal. Instead of blindly following brand guides, find holes and places for improvement. There was one “bug” that the class asked the MICA communications department about for the library materials: what default set of icons should MICA school projects use? The communications team didn’t have an answer, and since then have been exploring what the best way to solve a branded icon set institutionally with some of our work as starting point.

                                                                                                                                                                                        A Conclusion?

                                                                                                                                                                                        We as visual designers are not precluded from accessing the techniques and ideas of F/LOS. Graphic Designers can integrate F/LOS into their practice both pragmatically and conceptually: more and more (and better and better) tools exist from this realm (Github, Inkscape, Nodebox, etc.). F/LOS offers chances for design as a social critique; design that returns to unselfconcious, vernacular roots (open source isn’t new, it is basically the way that human creative endeavors have historically come into existence ); and design that serves more than just stereotypical clients and business needs (or, can serve those needs, but even better (faster and w/ less bugs!)). In choosing F/LOS alternatives in software a designer can say “I (and my tools) have different ethics than you (and your tools).” Designer’s adopting F/LOS critique the status quo. And even simply trying to make things with F/LOSS makes us better designers. Experiencing (or struggling with) new tools reminds that “goodness” in an interface, typeface or other artifact is often based on familiarity — when things do not behave as expected they appear less good, whether or not this is objectively true.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Making with F/LOS tools and ideals has pedagogical implications: all designers become teachers and students. A design file that one can open up and poke around in is useful for anyone to learn from (how’d they organize these layers? what makes that loopity-loop animate?). Since everyone can see the source code information transfer can go back and forth through many different paths, not just from the top down. F/LOS tools are also likely to use open file formats that can be used across a wide variety of other tools and mediums — so you aren’t locked into one program (even if the program’s filetype is specific, the many filetypes are really some type of XML, so you can still “read” the file with a text editor to get what is going on). It’s not just having access to files that is important, deciding to use F/LOSS means you have access to more kinds of tools; more options for making are available. There are F/LOS tools that do not exist in offerings from Adobe or Autodesk (the Spiro spline drawing tool which finds its way into InkScape and FontForge, or generative design tools like NodeBox and Processing). Seeing other kinds of vector drawing options might open space for one to make new things. If you believe that as an educator part of your role is to build on the knowledge of the past to create new knowledge you must adopt F/LOS.

                                                                                                                                                                                        The Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source class meandered along over the the term — but always in the direction of becoming more open; more libre. Despite not always being able to be fully libre (Richard Stallman would not have approved all our methods or tools), we did come out at the end of the term with new points of view on what makes a graphic design practice “good.” To the students “goodness” in a design practice now includes being open to sharing one’s work (failures and successes; code, files, etc.). Goodness also means building on works when and where you can (and letting others build and re-use your works). By increasing the variety of tools and techniques at one’s disposal (by utilizing open source tools, even in addition to proprietary ones — students didn’t think we needed to fully abandon our old tools and operating systems to be “libre designers” — one massively increases possibilities for formal output) a design practice can be more good. And, goodness also means operating ethically — attempting to make your designs ethical in the context of the golden rule (do unto others…), or in egalitarian access, or in not enslaving or entrapping an audience to the will of a client or a designer.

                                                                                                                                                                                        So, the next time you go looking fonts, icons, templates, stock illustrations, or frameworks for a design project look for free/libre open source ones. F/LOS offers up not only a pragmatic approach reviving how we have historically created socio-cultural artifacts, but also a critical approach that through utilizing ideologically based software and tools intentionally positions itself in opposition to mainstream modern-techno-capitalism.

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                                                                                                                                                                                        F/LOSD

                                                                                                                                                                                        23rd June 2021 at 11:08pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                        F/LOS Design... How to run a design practice with just Free/Libre Open Source tools, computers, software, etc.

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                                                                                                                                                                                        23rd June 2021 at 11:10pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                        F/LOSS > Free/Libre Open Source Software

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                                                                                                                                                                                        Field Guide: Equity-Centered Community Design

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                                                                                                                                                                                        Field of Vision

                                                                                                                                                                                        6th July 2021 at 1:09pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                        Field of Vision is a filmmaker-driven documentary unit that commissions, creates and supports original short-form and feature-length nonfiction films and episodic series about developing and ongoing stories around the globe.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Our mission is to support work that uses innovative and artistic ways to explore contemporary global issues through a cinematic lens, and to push the boundaries of nonfiction storytelling.

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                                                                                                                                                                                          FIXME!

                                                                                                                                                                                          28th July 2021 at 2:43am
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                                                                                                                                                                                          19th July 2021 at 2:40pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                          Definition Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                          There will be no perfect approach—the future will unfold in unpredictable ways. We must allow adaptive reuse and a willingness to change direction or tactics to fit circumstances.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Flexibility & Change

                                                                                                                                                                                          26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                          Driving Concepts Getting Real Pull back on scope

                                                                                                                                                                                          The ability to change is key. Having everything fixed makes it tough to change. Injecting scope flexibility will introduce options based on your real experience building the product. Flexibility is your friend.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Our recommendation: Scope down. It’s better to make half a product than a half-assed product (more on this later).

                                                                                                                                                                                          https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.4-fix-time-and-budget-flex-scope

                                                                                                                                                                                          FlickrCommons

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                                                                                                                                                                                          Foregoing clean lines and Swiss grids

                                                                                                                                                                                          22nd June 2021 at 10:53am
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                                                                                                                                                                                          Foregoing clean lines and Swiss grids, “Does It Make Sense?” is populated with floating low-res video images and bitmapped type. In response to the piece’s titular question, April Greiman has been known to paraphrase Wittgenstein: “It makes sense if you give it sense.” The Modernists were shook.

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                                                                                                                                                                                            Form <> Content <> Context

                                                                                                                                                                                            12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                            Big Ideas

                                                                                                                                                                                            Form is a subset of content, content is a subset of context … but they also push and pull on each other: Form CAN BECOME a context; Form CAN BECOME content.

                                                                                                                                                                                            In the end, I wish this to mean that CONTEXT is the ultimate arbiter of content and form. A given context, analyzed correctly, has content and form unique and correct to it that MAY NOT fit another context. Thus, there is no universal style or communicative tool. There are just the right things for a particular time, space, culture, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                            Related: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

                                                                                                                                                                                            Form should evolve with audience, production, and messages

                                                                                                                                                                                            14th July 2021 at 11:22pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                            Castles Made of Sand

                                                                                                                                                                                            “If the audience has changed and the production has changed, and the messages might change, wouldn’t common sense suggest that the notion of form might evolve too?”12

                                                                                                                                                                                            Four Environmental Heresies

                                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                            The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State Department is a foretaste of his major new book, sure to provoke widespread debate.

                                                                                                                                                                                            Stewart Brand

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                                                                                                                                                                                              Four Steps for an Artistic Practice

                                                                                                                                                                                              29th August 2021 at 11:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                              JOMO note The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)

                                                                                                                                                                                              Jørgen Leth's four steps for his artistic practice:

                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Find an area
                                                                                                                                                                                              2. delineate it
                                                                                                                                                                                              3. inspect it
                                                                                                                                                                                              4. write it down

                                                                                                                                                                                              found in The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) P83 ¶1 L16

                                                                                                                                                                                              Free Means Freedom

                                                                                                                                                                                              6th September 2021 at 4:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                              F/LOS Daily: Towards an Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                              The community aspects that Braithwaite and Raymond point to are not all there is to F/LOS — and not all that might interest a Graphic Designer. Torvalds was working on the Linux Kernel to aid in the completing of a larger project: GNU. GNU was created by Richard Stallman as “an operating system that is free software — that is, it respects users’ freedom.” This is where the Free/Libre part of Free/Libre Open Source came from.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Stallman predicated Free software on the following essential freedoms:

                                                                                                                                                                                              • The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
                                                                                                                                                                                              • The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
                                                                                                                                                                                              • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
                                                                                                                                                                                              • The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

                                                                                                                                                                                              A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is non free.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Free software defined by Stallman values users, it does not want to enslave a user to the will of a program or the will of that program’s developer. Stallman’s motivation in 1983 was to maintain the share-and-share-alike, vernacular-like model computer programmers were accustomed to where all are able to build upon existing works. Stallman saw this under attack (most accounts claim that “free software” was birthed when Xerox asked a peer programmer not to share a printer’s source code with Stallman). He was also motivated by being a good citizen.

                                                                                                                                                                                              “I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.” — Richard Stallman

                                                                                                                                                                                              Braithwaite nor Raymond deal with any ethical points in their discussions or analysis of open source. Neither take point of view as to why making should be done this way other than that “open design” arrives at better designs while saving resources. But “better” in that context is about less bugs and faster improvements, not “better” morals. Corporate culture has embraced the “open source” part of F/LOS, , what about the Stallman-esque Free/Libre piece, does that have implications for designing?

                                                                                                                                                                                              In “Designer as Author” Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose that designers “develop a parallel design activity that questions and challenges industrial agendas.” This is design that is in opposition to mainstream culture. Stallman’s ideals play wonderfully with this “critical design” perspective — Stallman is promoting critical software. Free Software challenges proprietary software’s agendas. Designers fully embracing “free-ness” in their software end up precluding themselves from the normal range of design tools, but open themselves to new territory better representing socially conscious and sustainability related content (the ideology of respecting a user [an audience] matches nicely with a socially aware design practice). Switching one’s software in this context is a critical act.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Students in Special Topics: Open Source formulating practices around “design is political” or “design is ideological” found Stallman’s position more valuable than the pure pragmatics of Braithwaite’s “share more.” Using collective making to more rapidly come to a solution was not the important bit from F/LOS — the good citizen-ship was! That tools might now reflect one’s ethics was a valuable discovery. But, somewhat ironically, in adopting full libre practices for ideological reasons, collaboration can be more difficult. A peer’s set of tools may no longer be your tools. So, though F/LOS tools might not always be possible, protecting an audience member’s freedom is. Stallman’s golden rule still holds true: “… The Golden Rule requires that if I like a program [design] I must share it with other people who like it.”

                                                                                                                                                                                              The Special Topics: Open Source class collaborated with MICA’s library on new print and signage materials. The library thinks of itself as an open entity within the school — the ideals of Stallman’s and F/LOS at large are mirrored by the Library’s director and staff (free-ness of information, open access, collaboration, etc.). There were limitations to how “free” we could be — we had to create files with Adobe Creative Cloud (it is a standard toolset for MICA offices), and we had to use the institution’s fonts. Though software and fonts were non-free, students did still go to great lengths to find ways of using F/LOS content and the share-and-share alike mentalities. One student utilized the MICA library’s personal archives for imagery. These are often works in the public domain, with no known copyright holder, or that the MICA Library directly holds the rights to. Reusing and remixing in the vernacular/open source vein is now a possibility for future library works. The class used issue queues to help divide and assign work; and the library staff were able to have access to the repositories to provide some input. The MICA brand guidelines themselves can be made more powerful if following institutional “open sourcing” is the goal. Instead of blindly following brand guides, find holes and places for improvement. There was one “bug” that the class asked the MICA communications department about for the library materials: what default set of icons should MICA school projects use? The communications team didn’t have an answer, and since then have been exploring what the best way to solve a branded icon set institutionally with some of our work as starting point.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Free vs Open Source

                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 11:34pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                              “Open Source” Teaching new users about freedom became more difficult in 1998, when a part of the community decided to stop using the term “free software” and say “open source software” instead.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Some who favored this term aimed to avoid the confusion of “free” with “gratis”—a valid goal. Others, however, aimed to set aside the spirit of principle that had motivated the free software movement and the GNU Project, and to appeal instead to executives and business users, many of whom hold an ideology that places profit above freedom, above community, above principle. Thus, the rhetoric of “open source” focuses on the potential to make high-quality, powerful software, but shuns the ideas of freedom, community, and principle.

                                                                                                                                                                                              https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html

                                                                                                                                                                                              Fresh Press

                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 11:51pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                              Paper making project at Univeristy of Illionois Champaign Urbana by Eric Benson

                                                                                                                                                                                              They make paper from prairie grass and agricultural waste

                                                                                                                                                                                              From Indesign to Pure Content

                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 11:42pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                              CAPE Pure Content Writing
                                                                                                                                                                                              Year
                                                                                                                                                                                              2014

                                                                                                                                                                                              InDesign, Word, and various other all-in-one document/software types make it is hard to connect or anchor an addendum piece of content to the flow without actively inserting it somehow. Distinctions between an “introduction” paragraph and a regular paragraph become fuzzy. Paragraph styles for both might be the same in terms of aesthetics, however, semantically, or meta-data-wise, there might be need/desire for a difference.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Let us say you have a designed book. All the editing, etc. for printing has already happened. However, now that content is locked into that usability space.

                                                                                                                                                                                              This is no different than using InDesign for writing. I think designers might often do this — it isn’t uncommon to directly design and write your syllabus in InDesign. Or perhaps, project sheets, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Also, in terms of hierarchy within a syllabus, there are things like headlines, subheads, paragraphs, etc. that will all get paragraph stylings or perhaps character styles (to use InDesign vernacular). However, this isn’t quite as good as say styling with CSS which gives you different sorts of meta-data control, or the ability to say that the paragraph tags of class “lecture” do something different than paragraph tags of class “project” — though they are still paragraph tags… hmmm… I guess you can do this by just using different paragraph styles — but it isn't quite as intrinsically simple in inDesign or word as it is in CSS.

                                                                                                                                                                                              If you want paragraphs to look the same, but be different, or tagged, in terms of their different content, paragraph styles or similar aren’t really enough to do that…

                                                                                                                                                                                              Coding languages are much better equipped to handle things like this. Variables, Fields, File-types, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Visual styling is concerned with hierarchy. Content organizing is concerned with structure.

                                                                                                                                                                                              There is visual hierarchy and structural hierarchy. We want to worry the most about the structural hierarchy. This is what will remain the same across all uses. The visual hierarchy we can allow to change as a function of the structural hierarchy and the use

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                                                                                                                                                                                              Create Anywhere, Publish everywhere has some key concepts that must be understood.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Create Anywhere: This doesn’t mean with any software, or in any format unfortunately. This “Anywhere” means anything that is capable of outputting semi-structured, little-to-no-formatted text/content. However, there are ways of converting things like word docs, google docs, spreadsheets, etc. into better formatted options. This just takes 1 central repository/program that can pull in all various datas and datatypes and formats, and convert, splice, and format them in friendlier, more universal ways; as well as optimal formats for specific use cases (InDesign likes XML, most web things like JSON right now). Once data is in the central repository — or the CAPE framework — this can be accomplished fairly simply… The content can even then be “generated” to a pure form for future updates, etc. via best practices.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                Future Ethics

                                                                                                                                                                                                6th September 2021 at 1:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                NowNext Press
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Future Possibles

                                                                                                                                                                                                  19th July 2021 at 2:40pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                  A future possible is something that is in the cone of possibilities, but isn't necessarily what WILL happen.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  We create future possibles by showing others alternative ways of thinking, behaving, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  This is related to the Futures Cone

                                                                                                                                                                                                  FutureCone

                                                                                                                                                                                                  23rd June 2021 at 10:59pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  see The Futures Cone

                                                                                                                                                                                                  from https://thevoroscope.com/2017/02/24/the-futures-cone-use-and-history/

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Add/Find: and then this one is my version, w/ help from Devon Halladay – It tries to show the Adjacent Possibles concept.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Futures Cone

                                                                                                                                                                                                  19th July 2021 at 2:40pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Definition Image

                                                                                                                                                                                                  As explained in The Futures Cone, use and history

                                                                                                                                                                                                  A way to postulate (envision?) types of futures.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  How to see more Future Possibles

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Get something real up and running quickly

                                                                                                                                                                                                  26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Getting Real

                                                                                                                                                                                                  It’s ok to do less, skip details, and take shortcuts in your process if it’ll lead to running software faster. Once you’re there, you’ll be rewarded with a significantly more accurate perspective on how to proceed. Stories, wireframes, even html mockups, are just approximations. Running software is real.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/06.1-race-to-running-software

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Getting Real

                                                                                                                                                                                                  14th August 2021 at 11:19pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Book ebook Source Web

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Book on the software philosophy of Basecamp...

                                                                                                                                                                                                  https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Trying to rethink how to do RG stuff using that, at least partially.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  A lot of quotes here...

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    GIMP

                                                                                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:34pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    FLOS Image Editor Raster Graphic Software

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Image Editor

                                                                                                                                                                                                    GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation Program

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Glenn Parsons

                                                                                                                                                                                                    24th August 2021 at 1:12am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Author, Philosopher. What else besides The Philosophy of Design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Glossary

                                                                                                                                                                                                    19th July 2021 at 2:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    GNU

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    GNU/Linux

                                                                                                                                                                                                    23rd June 2021 at 5:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    Definition F/LOS OS

                                                                                                                                                                                                    GNU Linux

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Linux is the kernel, GNU is everything else?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    GNU/Linux Distributions I have tried

                                                                                                                                                                                                    23rd June 2021 at 5:02pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    GNU/Linux

                                                                                                                                                                                                    I actually have enjoyed using a pretty plain Debian install on an older macbook air, and a Manjaro install on a lenovo thinkpad and an install of OpenSUSE on an iMac. Fedora and OpenSUSE have been prety easy to get things to work on without having to mess around too much. Manjaro usually works, but its a little more searching around and downloading or correctly enabling the right things.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    I did not like Ubuntu very much, it seemed slow and constrained in ways I did not find freeing at all. It felt like worse windows and mac os, but open source.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    go back to the essentials and consider what is truly important

                                                                                                                                                                                                    21st August 2021 at 10:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    Good Design Is as Little Design as Possible

                                                                                                                                                                                                    5th July 2021 at 1:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    Principle
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. #Less Is More
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Back to purity, back to simplicity.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    Good Formalism

                                                                                                                                                                                                    27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                                                                    We judge graphic design using visual criteria for "formal goodness" or "beauty" from the systems we must be critical of.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    The principles of "good" modernist design are so embedded in culture that they are the principles of "good" graphic designing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    — Jerome Harris

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Contemporary formal goodness evolved from late 19th through mid-20th centuries western art traditions. The formal concepts of Modernist Capitalism do not so far seem to lead to all life flourishing (it's usually the opposite!).

                                                                                                                                                                                                    What new criteria for formal goodness or "beauty" are necessary for Sustainable designs!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                    (And, if a modern design is made by modernists, then sustainable design is made by sustainabilitists?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Good Starting Outline for a presentation

                                                                                                                                                                                                    27th August 2021 at 11:53pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    • What is Sustainable Graphic Design?
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • What Ties All My Work Together?
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Everything is Connected
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • A Place To Start

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Grafting

                                                                                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    Process Prompt

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Amazing idea for how to make new meanings. Add explanations from old AD1 books?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      Graphic Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                      6th July 2021 at 12:35am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                      graphic designing is trying to make the complex intelligible

                                                                                                                                                                                                      21st July 2021 at 12:48pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      graphic designing is trying to make the complex intelligible; not telling visual lies wherein one presents simple signs as replacements just to make something conform to an aesthetic ideal

                                                                                                                                                                                                      to the best way to solve complex problems is with complex thinking

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Gravity Battery

                                                                                                                                                                                                      12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      ArtWork Opportunity Big Ideas Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Green Acres

                                                                                                                                                                                                      30th September 2021 at 1:40am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      An art catalog book I designed with Jenna Kaminsky

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      green washing

                                                                                                                                                                                                      2nd September 2021 at 1:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Painting an environmentally friendly picture, without doing anything eco-friendly.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Also see: The Seven Sins of Green Washing

                                                                                                                                                                                                      greenhouse gas

                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      Any gas in the atmosphere that aids in retaining heat energy.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                        Grok

                                                                                                                                                                                                        19th July 2021 at 2:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                        Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                        To grok something is to understand something completely, intuitively, to with your every being fully KNOW the thing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        From Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Grok TiddlyWiki

                                                                                                                                                                                                        11th June 2021 at 11:40pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                        Grok TiddlyWiki Tour

                                                                                                                                                                                                        11th June 2021 at 11:42pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                        Help

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Another cool TiddlyWiki reference from Soren Bjornstad

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Hail the Maintainers

                                                                                                                                                                                                          21st August 2021 at 11:53pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Source

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Story on Aeon

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Andrew Russell is Dean and Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York. He is the author of Open Standards and the Digital Age (2014) and co-editor of Ada's Legacy (2015).

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Lee Vinsel is an assistant professor of science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He is working on the book Taming the American Idol: Cars, Risks, and Regulations.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Half Earth

                                                                                                                                                                                                          12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Big Ideas

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Half of the Earth must be preserved for nature

                                                                                                                                                                                                          20th June 2021 at 11:07pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Have-Do-Be

                                                                                                                                                                                                          22nd July 2021 at 11:25pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Not Helpful Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Most of us think we need to “have” a certain thing or set of things (more money, love, time, experience, etc.), so that we can finally “do” something important (pursue our passion, start a business, go on vacation, create a relationship, buy a home, etc.), which will then allow us to “be” what we truly want in life (peaceful, fulfilled, inspired, generous, in love, etc.).

                                                                                                                                                                                                          https://mike-robbins.com/be-do-have/

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Related to Outcome Based Thinking?

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Health

                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Heidegger’s notion of “readiness-at-hand” vs. “presence-at-hand”

                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Henry George

                                                                                                                                                                                                          14th August 2021 at 3:30pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

                                                                                                                                                                                                          9th August 2021 at 1:24pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Author People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Author, Poet, United States-izen

                                                                                                                                                                                                          One of the great writers and characters from the 19th century

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Talk

                                                                                                                                                                                                            20th August 2021 at 10:24pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                            Kristian Bjørnard - Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist

                                                                                                                                                                                                            School of Art, Art History & Design, UNIVERSITY of NEBRASKA–LINCOLN

                                                                                                                                                                                                            04/15/2021

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            Kristian Bjørnard Graphic Design Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist 04/14/2021 — Kristian Bjørnard is a professor of Graphic Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife and two children in an old stone house they're trying to make energy efficient. He's made biodiesel, helped his wife run a vegetable farm, and is now converting his family's small yard into an orchard. When he isn't sequestering carbon and free(ing) culture, Kristian designs identities; algorithmic tools; and books, magazines, and digital publications for a variety of clients. Whatever the output, Kristian sees every project as an opportunity to create signs signaling sustainability. Kristian holds an MFA in Graphic Design from MICA and a BA in Studio Art from Kalamazoo College.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Hofstadter’s law

                                                                                                                                                                                                              22nd July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Hover state and active state of text controls not light pink please.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              24th June 2021 at 10:47pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              FIXME!

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Hover state of tools links needs to not be white!

                                                                                                                                                                                                              24th June 2021 at 10:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              How Bazaar

                                                                                                                                                                                                              6th September 2021 at 4:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              F/LOS Daily: Towards an Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Contemporary open source understanding (Braithwaite’ included) comes from Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. In the essay, Raymond analyzes Linus Torvalds’ (and his distributed hacker crew’s) development of the Linux Kernel. Raymond found magic in Torvald’s “release early, release often” mantra and distributed method of working. Raymond points to the maxim “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone,” or “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” as key to Linus’s (and Linux’s) success. Get as many self-selected, expert users as possible to tinker with a design; then ask those same users to share everything wrong they find. As fixes are made, redistribute updates as fast as possible back to the group. Problem finding and solving is accelerated (duplicate searches end quickly since redistribution of fixes is rapid). This was crucial to Linux’s stability and rapid improvement.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Braithwaite is encouraging designers to adopt the same shared, distributed model in hopes that many skilled eyes will also make light work. , Graphic designers aim to find the best visual solution to a problem, but do we show “buggy” ideas to clients, colleagues, or stake holders as part of our process in such an unselfconcious way? This is done easily within the classroom or in the studio between colleagues: hang work on the walls; pass designs between desks/desktops as they develop; look over each other’s shoulders. It can take place out in the world by using services like Dribbble, Behance, and Github. But, open designing is not about accruing comments like “cool!” or “nice work!” or “wow! what’s that great esoteric typeface!” The goal is real solutions to unsolved problems. Designers and audience members other than ourselves might see things differently, catch things we have missed, or have a solution waiting that we have not found on our own (or have not found yet, thus shortening our solution’s path).

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Our Special Topics: Open Source class had moved our project files to Github, and we also decided to utilize Github’s issue queue to aid in communal problem solving — making sure we lent each other our eyes. Issues let a user reveal found problems to the “community” (in this case our class, but in general the maintainer and anyone else interested in a project) and then request help with solution finding. Peers peruse each other’s queues attempting aid by providing thoughts; sharing a tutorial; or downloading, tweaking, and re-publishing a fix. For our class, utilizing issue queues kept us a community beyond the classroom when at our homes or working from separate studios across campus. It was also incredibly complicated! For visual design projects the Github “distributed critique” made it hard to get deeper into each others’ experiments that just superficials; it was easy to provide basic visual feedback — asking a question isn’t hard; theorizing isn’t too much work; throwing up a screen shot or two is easy; a “this is working, that isn’t” is no problem. But, forking someone’s project, opening the files, and trying to make sense of design decisions AND understand the context and content of that direction? That required time that not many ended up undertaking. Our class found what most open source communities have found — a small percentage of the community are actually responsible for the majority of the work; most “members” merely download and attempt to use the software, code, utility, whatever, not actually help problem solve and improve.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              How Buildings Learn

                                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 11:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Stewart Brand
                                                                                                                                                                                                              ISBN
                                                                                                                                                                                                              978-0140139969
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Publisher
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Penguin Books; Reprint edition (October 1, 1995)
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Year
                                                                                                                                                                                                              1995

                                                                                                                                                                                                              How do we address Climate Change if our political system fails to act?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              27th August 2021 at 11:16pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              How does an Elevator change the value proposition of a tall buidling?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              6th July 2021 at 12:16am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              How does an Elevator change the value proposition of a tall building?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 3:29pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              How is modernity affecting the way we live and interact with the natural world?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              23rd August 2021 at 3:01pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Prompt

                                                                                                                                                                                                              inspired by Abeer Seikaly

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              How is my thinking wrong?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              6th July 2021 at 4:16pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              How this works?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              19th June 2021 at 12:11am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Invest in the Process

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Keep the outcome from being dependent on your wellbeing?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Once you have determined where you want to be, you focus on the outcome only so it gives you a direction, and then you invest yourself into the process, you put everything into getting there and if you succeed, wonderful and if you don't still wonderful. now you have a new starting point and you create a new outcome and keep moving on!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              How to decarbonize the grid and electrify everything

                                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 1:56pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              "The good news is it's now clearly cheaper to save the planet than to ruin it," says engineer and investor John Doerr. "The bad news is: we are fast running out of time." In this conversation with climate policy expert Hal Harvey, the two sustainability leaders discuss why humanity has to act globally, at speed and at scale, to meet the staggering challenge of decarbonizing the global economy (which has only ever increased emissions throughout history) – and share helpful examples of promising energy solutions from around the world.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              A TED conversation between John Doerr and Hal Harvey

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Is this related to why go solar????

                                                                                                                                                                                                              How to decide what is beautiful?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Beautiful things ARE sustainable things

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Bruce Sterling outlines four criteria for sorting through the objects you own so as to decide what to keep and what to discard as a part of your new, sustainably designed life. (From Sterling's essay The Last Viridian Note)

                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Beautiful Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. Sentimental Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Utilitarian Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Everything else.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Categories 1–3 are worth keeping, category 4 is to be discarded.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              When de Botton talks about beauty in design and architecture, his “beauty” encompasses Sterling’s top 3 categories.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              But, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sterling found the need to break his list of criteria four separate entities, and not just “beautiful things” and “everything else.” I find a well crafted hammer functional, utilitarian, and beautiful. To another, it might just be functional. The paintings and drawings I find beautiful are what another might find ugly. The things I find sentimental are unique to me. Not everyone has the same idea of what should be sustained as not everyone thinks the same things are beautiful.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              How to put depressive energy instead into making a difference?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              6th September 2021 at 1:48pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              But How?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              but how?!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              How to speak in useful languages?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              1st September 2021 at 4:43pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              re listen to who needs artists in a climate crisis podcast... there has got to be something there to revist from a graphic designer perspective!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              How to think differently about doing good as a creative person

                                                                                                                                                                                                              20th August 2021 at 10:19pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              How to wrangle some things; think about things; but not have to make things?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              20th August 2021 at 3:23pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Hugh Pocock

                                                                                                                                                                                                              1st November 2021 at 12:40am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Artist, professor, sustainabilitist

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Human Supremacy Complex

                                                                                                                                                                                                              20th August 2021 at 9:57pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              New Book or Film or Web … etc. … Source
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • the earth belongs to humanity
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • the earth consits of resources for the betterment of people
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • humans are obviously superior to all other species

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Hybrid Ethnographic Designer

                                                                                                                                                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              New genre of designer, can deal with diversity that white default culture can't

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Coined by Cheryl D Miller in her April 6 talk at MICA

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                I am not against technology itself, I am against technocracy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 3:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                I Seem To Be A Verb: Environment and Man's Future

                                                                                                                                                                                                                19th June 2021 at 12:19am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                I've been looking through all my old works...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                6th August 2021 at 3:43pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                Lecture So Many Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                I have been going through a lot of old work, old writing, old lectures, just all of my past “work.” I am left asking myself a lot of questions!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ice Has A Memory

                                                                                                                                                                                                                6th July 2021 at 1:07pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                An Inuit poem contemplates scientific exploration of Greenland

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Greenland is the world’s largest island, a sprawling landmass covered by a notoriously receding ice sheet. With a population of just 56,000, it’s also one of the least populated places on Earth. The vast majority of these Greenlanders are Greenlandic Inuit, with roots on the island stretching back centuries. Recent decades, however, have brought a new kind a visitor – climate scientists with complex devices for drilling and prodding the Earth. Setting up temporary camps that tend to leave permanent marks, they aim to peer into the deep past preserved in the ice, hoping that it will offer hints about the climate’s precarious future.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                An impressionistic work of nonfiction with science-fiction influences, Utuqaq (‘ice that lasts year after year’) juxtaposes images of a scientific expedition to Greenland’s ice sheet with a poem about the visitors, narrated in Kalaallisut, a variant of Greenlandic Inuit language, by Aviaja Lyberth. As the US-based filmmaker Iva Radivojevic’s otherworldly and often beautiful exploration unfolds, two distinct perspectives on the stark white landscape slowly emerge.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Director: Iva Radivojevic

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Website: Field of Vision

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ideologies: Modernism is bad?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                27th August 2021 at 1:27am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is also related to Utopian Gestures and Sustainable Graphic Design and I said something about this in my Open Source Design course from 2018 too (2019?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Modernism is out of date.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                The context that led to the style of modernism are no longer relevant to our current problems.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                If the contexts are different; time and space are changed; the people are different; the world is the stage, not just a broken Europe; then the aesthetic outcomes need to be different too.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                If it’s really worth remembering, visitors will remind you until you can’t forget.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                Getting Real

                                                                                                                                                                                                                If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement

                                                                                                                                                                                                                25th August 2021 at 10:09am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                “If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Teju Cole @tejucole

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Image

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:34pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Tagged with Image Editor

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Impakter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        23rd August 2021 at 3:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Social/Eco news

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        In conversation with Calvin Hutcheon

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        8th October 2021 at 5:23pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        In conversation with Calvin Hutcheon

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Design is situational

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Systems related > related to technology and the ability for systems to execute...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        where to shape the systems that govern our interactions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        there is an important role for design to play in these contexts?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Design work: specifically in the UX sphere, is it that a strategy is made concrete?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        open source design is about modules and libraries and icons... but doesn't have a lot of other reach?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        is open source design a place for "research"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        come up with creative, and different ways of thinking about design out in the world.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        deeper human engagement...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        how can, through "opening" up designs, can we bring in a more human approach???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        how do people move through the world and leverage each other's systems and knowledge are... where are the leverage points? how do we take advantage of them?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        how can the "technology" bring people together? do policy people, sociology people, etc. have a way to actually get together WITH designers?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        what other knowledge domains do you need to know about and how do you find the people to collaborate with?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        lining up people with the things they're good at

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        organization of labor. how do the people that are useful for specific things at specific times find that to do, and then still have other things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        DARPA but for social design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        how do you generate funding for your idea? how can you funnel funding towards the thing you are into with only available tools? how do you organize and route resources where they are needed?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What are the limitations of our environments? what is the use of an institution like MICA? like an art school? like a company like Apple?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        what are the goals and motivations in life that you have? is getting a job the important part? what is?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Why would you contirbute money to something that you weren't getting equity in?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Why fund the open source space?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        the infrastructure for people to find the people they need and build teams, social events, networking tools

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Open Source incubator – people meet and find people of different skill sets.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Open source is a full spectrum thing... how do you make sure business people, lawyers, copy writers, sociologists,

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          In the Bubble

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          22nd July 2021 at 11:15pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          By John Thackara

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          In the Laboratory With Agassiz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          17th August 2021 at 6:28pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Incorporate admin functions into the public interface

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Getting Real

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          InDesign

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 11:44pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Adobe Raster Graphic Software Vector Graphics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Index

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          9th July 2021 at 12:16pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          staticSite

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          This is my first static website with TiddlyWiki!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Trying to improve the "live" version of my new whatever this site is.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          020210600 June contains all the main stuff I've been intentionally writing here so far. But there are a lot of other kinds of content and definitions and such that will be showing up here.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          this will eventually replace The Sustainabilitist > http://www.thesustainabilitist.com/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          using the Ness Labs tutorial to help figure this out. https://nesslabs.com/tiddlywiki-static-website-generator / So I can use https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Generating%2520Static%2520Sites%2520with%2520TiddlyWiki.html as well to help get it working? Is it better to do it as a static site, or keep it dynamic but hide the controls for adding/editing?! I don't know.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I also have been using a lot of Soren Bjornstad's walkthroughs to figure things out.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Now onto July

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Inflexible Power

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          You don't want inflexible 24/7 Base Load power. This is what Coal Power and Nuclear Power provide, and thus why Nuclear and Coal are Obsolete

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Inkscape

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          23rd June 2021 at 5:26pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          F/LOS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Vector drawing tool. Good GNU/Linux design tool. Part of The Libre Designer's toolkit

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Inquiry Model

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 2:14pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Pedagogy of the Oppressed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Empowerment Education

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Show, don't tell

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "showing," is a model of inquiry, where learners are free to ask, explore, experiment. “Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention,” Freire writes, “through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.” (53)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          22nd June 2021 at 10:56am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Stephen Hawking

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            interact with the landscape in a way that builds niches for biodiversity

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            21st August 2021 at 10:21pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Designers of Paradise

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I think it is possible for humans to interact with the landscape in a way that builds niches for biodiversity AND provides an opportunity to get yields from an agricultural system for our needs.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Kevin Maher

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Internal Passion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              22nd July 2021 at 11:25pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Author
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Srikumar Rao

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Passion exists inside of you, it does not exist in your job. If you cannot ignite passion inside of you where you are, then you find that the external world rearranges itself to accomodate you........

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Srikumar Rao

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Invest in the Process

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                22nd July 2021 at 11:23pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mental Model
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                We Invest in the Outcome

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                There is an alternative. You do not invest in the outcome you invest in the process.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Investigate the systems around you

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                20th August 2021 at 3:22pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                is my design good design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 11:28pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Is technical mastery important

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                22nd July 2021 at 3:45pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Is this thing on?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                11th June 2021 at 1:40pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Just checking to see that things are working? I need to style this up a bit better.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It is a pattern and designed to be managed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                21st August 2021 at 10:21pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Designers of Paradise

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                When you are on the ground, where you are standing can feel somewhat wild. But if you take a 10000 ft view, it is a pattern, it is designed to be managed... this become apparent. But on the ground for the insects and the birds, it, hopefully feels somewhat like home.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Kevin Maher

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It should be possible to bicycle anywhere

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  14th August 2021 at 11:26pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Radical Position

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    It should be possible to walk anywhere

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Iva Radivojevic

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      James Auger

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      17th June 2021 at 11:59pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      James Auger was among the first designers to question the role of the designer and the impact of design products (Tooth implant, J.Loizeau and J.Auger). He was then professor at the Royal College of Art in the famous ​Interactions Design section alongside Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunne. Since 2015, James has devoted himself to his research projects at the Madeira Institute of Technology and writes regularly with Julian Hanna on modern design issues (Crap Futures).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • auger-loizeau.com
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • crapfutures.tumblr.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Making Gravity Battery related work and more...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Jan Boelen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      15th July 2021 at 11:04pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Designer and Philosopher in the Netherlands?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Jasper Morrison

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 10:05pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      John Chris Jones

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      John Krubsack Harvested Chair

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      25th June 2021 at 1:12am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Signs Signaling Sustainability Sustainable Aesthetics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A chair grown directly from bent sapplings. http://treeshapers.net/john-krubsack

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      John Thackara

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 11:13pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Author, Thinker, Sustainabilitist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      In the Bubble was his first book I read…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      John Wooden

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 11:26pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Jonathan Foley

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        19th October 2021 at 11:02pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Executive Director Project Drawdown

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Jørgen Leth

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1st July 2021 at 3:50pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Filmmaker, poet, Dane

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan C. Noguera

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        22nd July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Product Design Faculty Maryland Institute College of Art

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Teaching Philosophy:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I teach classes where students are involved. Where students drive the conversation, and where we use technology, objects, models and sketches as an excuse to talk about empathy, objectivity, context and other discourses that drive the design profession forward. I like to help shape designers that not only render and make beautifully, but that are hungry to solve people’s problems in an appropriate and assertive way. This is a bit about how I help spread this culture

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Able to pair the tools and techniques, the practical and the technological. with the emotional and philosophical and theoretical...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Service Sel-Eval

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Regular Attendance to Faculty Assembly

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        During my time at MICA, I have been in regular attendance of the monthly Faculty Assembly meetings, participating in every vote and discussion, advocating for Faculty with similar visa and income restrictions, especially during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan attends all the Faculty Assemblies. He has voted in all of our faculty votes so far, particularly in supporting his fellow Faculty with visa and other restrictions during this last year of pandemic related contractual issues.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Speaker at Spring 2020 Full Faculty Meeting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        At the end of the Spring 2020 semester (which was partially an online-only semester with a very difficult pivot for the MICA community) I was asked to do a short presentation to the Full Faculty body of MICA, in which I presented my student work successfully navigating the transition from the studio and shops at MICA, to an online classroom.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I included work my students did using remote prototyping, photogrammetry, 3D printing, Augmented Reality (AR) and other alternate methods of making and collaborating remotely.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan also chose to share a short presentation with the rest of us faculty at the Spring 2020 full faculty meeting on his work transitioning his classroom to online. This is another positive example of serving the school at large above and beyond the requests of “service” in our handbook.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        MAEA/MICA High School Artist Event

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        In November 2019, I designed and performed a workshop with a group of high school level students in coordination with the Maryland Art Education Association (MAEA). This workshop attempted to walk students through what a Product Designer does and the role of product design in the world. Afterwards, I shared the process of creation of a project I was heavily involved in, the Electroninks “Circuit Scribe” education kit, a toy that teaches people of all ages about basic electronics concepts through the use of a conductive ink pen and magnetic modules. The workshop was very successful and received rave reviews from the students in attendance, as well as the supervising teachers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan even represents Product Design and MICA to the greater community at large, performing a workshop for the Maryland Art Education Association (MAEA). The workshop showcased the department as well as Juan's own work — an example of how Juan's work from the field and his capabilities in serving the department are synergistic.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        National Portfolio Review

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        In November 2019, I participated as a reviewer for National Portfolio Review in Baltimore, representing the Product Design Department and reviewing the work of potential applicants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan reviews perspective students for the Product Design department as part of MICA's National Portfolio Review day. This is vital service to the department.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        FYE Open House Speaker

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        During Spring 2020, and in collaboration with the First Year Experience (FYE) faculty and my Department Chair, I hosted three sessions on Product Design for the FYE Open House event, where freshman students were able to visit several departments of their choice, tour the facilities, and learn more about the different majors offered at MICA. My presentations centered on the role of Product Design in the world, and the profile of student that we are looking to engage with to become Product Designers. Since the session schedule collided with some classes in our building, I also prepared a virtual tour of the facilities at the Dolphin Design Center.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan was able to help FYE students learn more about Product Design during the Department Open House day run by FYE. I heard firsthand from students how impressed they were with Juan's presentation and the Product Design department as a whole (opportunities, workspace, and potential course content). Juan was able to again serve the department well in his role as FYE Open House speaker.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Departmental Exhibition FA19

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        In early 2020, I was tasked with putting together an exhibit with the best work from the Fall 2019 semester. In the Dolphin Design Center gallery space, I curated, designed and mounted an exhibit featuring some of the best work, ranging from conceptual work, research work, to furniture prototypes and 3D printed prototypes. The exhibit was well received and used as a backdrop for other concurrent events such as the FYE open house, which enriched the context for such presentations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        As part of helping the campus at large see and understand what happens in Dolphin as product designers, Juan put together an exhibition. I found the exhibition to illustrate a variety of ideas and techniques that students can engage in as product designers. Juan was able to serve the department well with this effort. It overlapped with the FYE open house, so was able to benefit the department on multiple levels.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        RCCE Search Committee Service

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        During the Fall 2020 Semester, I participated in a search committee that aimed to find the perfect candidate for the Co-Director position at MICA’s Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepreneurship. I personally reviewed over two dozen comprehensive applications, scored them, helped with the interview process and participated of the candidates’ public and private presentations. This search resulted in a job offer for a suitable candidate.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan also served on a search committee. Juan helped to review application, interview candidates, and attend their presentations. The search committees are not required, and Juan went beyond his service requirements serving on a committee like this so early in his MICA career!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Community Engagement Committee

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        During Fall 2019, Spring 2020 and Fall 2020, I have served in the Community Engagement Committee, reviewing proposals and allocating grants in conjunction with the Center for Creative Citizenship at MICA.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan's main committee service was on the Community Engagement Committee, which works as an extension of the Center for Creative Citizenship. This committee reviews a lot of proposals for grants related to partnering MICA faculty and community-based organizations. Juan must review a lot of material and be present and committed to his committee to complete this role effectively.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan also served on a search committee. Juan helped to review application, interview candidates, and attend their presentations. The search committees are not required, and Juan went beyond his service requirements serving on a committee like this so early in his MICA career!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Guest Lecturer: “Intercultural Discourse at the intersections of Art, Design + Media”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        During the Fall 2020 semester, I participated as a guest lecturer on a course taught by Prof. Sukyun Lee, from the Graduate Liberal Arts Department. In an hour-long presentation, I focused around my practice as a product designer, and how the connections to my cultural identity have impacted my work. I then engaged in a Q&A session with a student group with many ELL students and international students who themselves grapple with the impact of their own culture in their work at MICA and beyond.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan generously visits other classrooms and courses around campus. He participated in Sukyun Lee's Intercultural Discourse at the intersections of Art, Design + Media course for grad students as a guest lecturer. Juan's unique background and path to MICA professor allow him to serve not only his department, but international students and faculty at large.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Undergraduate Admitted Student Workshop - Product Design in a Virtual World

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        In April 2020, after the Covid-19 Pandemic caused the MICA community to dramatically pivot to online learning for the remainder of the semester, I was approached by the admissions department to put together an hour long session that focused on how Product Design could be taught remotely. I leveraged the use of technologies such as 3D scanning and Photogrammetry, to be able to lift my student’s clay or foam models and transform them into digital models that could be manipulated, rendered, 3D printed and shared through Augmented Reality (AR), this way maintaining an active critique/conversation with their peers much like in the studio.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Juan was able to help serve the department (and again, MICA as an institution) in an engagement undertaken with admissions: providing a workshop for how Product Design might work remotely. Juan was able to take the department's existing resources, and some ideas that has already been tested in last springs shift to virtual, and then work with admitted students to show off these ideas and techniques (Physical making, 3D scanning, rendering, etc.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        PPE Fabrication and Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an extreme shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) throughout the world. As the MICA campus shut down, and in collaboration with the MICA Fabrication studios, I repurposed two of the 3D printers from the Dolphin Design Center, and through several weeks, manufactured several hundred face shield frames in MICA’s name, which were distributed to healthcare providers in need by Open Works throughout the state of Maryland. In addition, I was able to collaborate with peers at MIT and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in the improvement of existing face shield designs for quick manufacture using automated equipment. I was also able to collaborate in Guateplast (Guatemala City) a large injection molded plastic manufacturer, in the creation of a low-cost face shield alternative appropriate to the local context.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        As an example of service to the department, to the school, to Baltimore at large, and hey, to humanity in general, Juan helped find ways to make PPE – face shields specifically – in a couple of different styles and with different digital fabrication tools and through a multiple local, national, and international partners. Again this work showcases the department, and MICA at large, truly serving the MICA mission of "thriving, [not only] with Baltimore," but with everyone.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Julia Watson

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        8th July 2021 at 5:02pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Architect, Sustainabilitist, Author

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        14th July 2021 at 11:24pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Find Newer Data Source

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Kai Curry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        22nd July 2021 at 11:10pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Collaborator Developer People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        He lives on an ocean worthy Sailboat! He could be anywhere!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Karen Shea

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          27th June 2021 at 5:02am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          MICA Open-sourcerer People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Former student, occasional current internet friend. Open-sourcerer: when last I heard, Karen was a Ubuntu user!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Kenya Hara

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          19th June 2021 at 12:25am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Kevin Maher

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          21st August 2021 at 10:35pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          People Doing People Things Permaculture

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Kintsugi

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5th July 2021 at 1:29pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Japanese ceramic repair ideology – "Golden repair"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          You use a bit of gold to fix/repair cracked ceramics.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Knowing facts doesn't help people change!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          21st August 2021 at 11:01pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          so what are we going to do? what are we going to help people change with instead?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          How do we as designers become masters of behavior change? but not use it for evil!!??

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Knowledge

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Information wants to be free, and it is time we let it. Disseminating knowledge and information has never been easier. We need to increase, not limit, people’s access. Sustainabilitists must become masters of knowledge.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Kristian Bjørnard

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            16th July 2021 at 9:57pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Climate Designers GDMFA Open-sourcerer People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Kristian Bjørnard is an Educator, Designer, Sustainabilitist, and Open-sourcerer based in Baltimore, MD. He works at the nexus of visual communication, the public domain, climate change, and technology. In his spare time Kristian dabbles in permaculture farming and attempts to make an old stone house, where he lives with his wife and children, energy efficient. Kristian holds an MFA in Graphic Design from MICA and a BA in Studio Art from Kalamazoo College.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Personal Acquaintance with:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Krystal / Horizontal Story River

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            15th July 2021 at 10:45pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            tiddlyWiki

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A cool TiddlyWiki theme to try out...

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              21st October 2021 at 11:31pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Interesting explanation of what makes up Laser Toner from Wired Magazine

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Launch on time and on budget

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Getting Real Quote

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Here’s an easy way to launch on time and on budget: keep them fixed. Never throw more time or money at a problem, just scale back the scope.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.4-fix-time-and-budget-flex-scope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Tagged with Launch on time and on budget

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Laws of Media

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The laws of media are phrased as questions instead of statements.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Each question can produce multiple answers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • there is no "right" answer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • all answers are accurate, correct

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Learning by Doing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Learning Design for Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              23rd August 2021 at 4:13pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Learning vs. Understanding

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Because a student has learned a technical skill does not mean they comprehend the best time, place, or use for said skill. Classrooms are where understanding happens — you can put technical skills to work outside of a simple demonstration or project. Class time should create connections between demonstrated tools, and skills and other larger ideas and concerns (social, cultural, economic, etc.). These connections result in increased comprehension for how one might use design to investigate any presented problem.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I've got some ideas for lectures... Find scripts, ideas, prompts, slides, and more here.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Lecture Ideas for Utah Workshop intro

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                020210306221059 Entry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • I am combining three important things in this workshop:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • This workshop needs a name.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Workshop
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Free Culture > In The Beginning Culture was Free!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Design Tools/elements
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Flickr Commons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2. Typography And Open Source
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Vernacular
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Stewart Brand and How Buildings Learn
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Climate Designer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Project Drawdown
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. UN Sustainable Development Goals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. Clear, Easily Iterative Deliverables
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Posters
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Some sort of series?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • why posters?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • can "posters" be interpreted in some way?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2. 2 posters – the posters are in communication with one another?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Reuse my poster project prompt from AD1 w/ sandie and isaac?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      3. 3 posters – they are iterative? they build on one another?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Readings
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Refernce the AD1 Invisible Cities readings?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. AD1 Grating exercises readings?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem / http://fromkeetra.com/Downloads/TheEcstacyOfInfluence_JonathanLethem.pdf / https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence/?single=1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4. Writing Bodies, Litia Perta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Questions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. What is it?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. When is this from?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. Where is this from?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4. Who made this?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5. What made this?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6. What is so great about this?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  7. What drew you to this?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  8. Why does this exist?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  9. How do we create meaning?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  10. How do we decide what is "good enough" to give to another person? and does that matter?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  11. How do you reinvent the visual presentation of a familiar product?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  12. How do we discover new ways to reimagine and promote common forms?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Define Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                When I talk about sustainability, I'm talking about these mindsets.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • The Triple Bottom Line
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • separate but additive; each space has potential for sustainability, and the goal is for hitting the overlap of all three sustainabilities, but you can focus on one without the others (there in lies the problem).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • This is "sustainability in practice"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Nested: Economy within Society within Nature
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • holistic; everything is a decision within nature.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • If you frame everything this way, you can't accidentally leave out a kind of sustainability.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Everything Is Connected

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Here are some other Definitions of Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Any action that does not degrade the systems supporting it
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do. / Paul Hawken
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Do unto others as you would have them do to you. / The Golden Rule (or the ethic of reciprocity), Originally attributed to Confucious
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Equity over time. Think of it as extending the Golden rule through time … Do unto future generations as you would have them do unto you. / Robert Gilman, the Context Institute
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Living and working together for a common good. / The Japanese principle of “Kyosei
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Don't eat your seed corn. / Farmer Colloquialism
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of life’s supporting systems.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Understanding the interconnections among the economy, our society, and the environment.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Living within limits
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Accounting for the present AND the future
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Leaving the world better than we found it
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Affluence without guilt, not sacrifice and restriction / Alex Steffen, founder of WorldChanging.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Sustainabilitist Principles

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Sustainabilitist Principles is a modular manifesto; a collection of the ways of thinking to sustainably design as I considered them in 2009. The goal: create an object whose form embodied the principles it conveyed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Sustainabilitist Principles started out as the books on my desk. Where did "sustainable designing" lay within them… I mapped connections between ideas… wrote down repeating ideas… pondered interconnections over time and space of similar principles… how could I clarify access to these ideas for the next designer?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The final output of this direction brought necessary pieces together in an intentional, ephemeral form for an exhibition. We don't need another book or poster series to explain these principles: the objects themselves could do it if put together correctly!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The books were my actual books. The screen printed definitions were printed on the front matter of found paperback novels. The interconnecting embroidery floss was used in the longest possible pieces to maximize reuse of the thread afterward.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This was my first truly successful piece of "sustainable graphic design." It was also my last "answer" to a question in grad school: "What does sustainable Graphic Design look like?"

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Related:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What does sustainable Graphic Design look like?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A prompt.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What does it look like? Should it matter that it looks different or the same?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This question continues to fascinate me. Alongside the Sustainabilitist principles, I had works that I felt fell into 4 types of "answers":

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainable Graphic Design Does Not Exist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainable design does not exist was at first pessimistic. Is design all just trash? does design create waste period, so nothing is sustainable? Anything we make is unmaking so much else; so all design is unsustainable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                But! Sustainable design does not exist came to signify an alternative; it didn't exist because it was ephemeral! because it reused existing objects in a new way! that it left no trace! that it was part of a vernacular process! suddenly this felt like a prompt for new works; new questions! A useful constraint for future work.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Where does this thinking lead us? We can think of all our designs as living within the context of nature, and we can think of how they might look or what they might be made of or what audience a design might be serving… Is there a clearer way to articulate what "Sustainable Graphic Design" is?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Defining Sustainable Graphic Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In the 2013 book Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability, John Ehrenfeld writes “The key to doing something about sustainability is that you first have to say what it is that you want to sustain.” To define sustainable graphic design we must first define what it is we are sustaining.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                If sustainable graphic design is design in service of what we want to sustain, how do you decide what's worth sustaining? (because, if we pick the wrong thing, say we want to sustain the status quo, then that is what sustainable graphic design is — hmmm!?).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ehrenfeld answers that for us too. He wants to sustain “that all humans and other life should flourish.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Designer Bruce Mau had a similar goal for the Massive Change project: “Our project is the welfare of all life as a practical objective.” (design for the welfare of all life)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is what we'll use as our definition of Sustainable Graphic Design for the remainder of the talk: Sustainable graphic design is “graphic design in support of all life flourishing,” or, “graphic design for the welfare of all life.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainable Graphic Design is Different

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                All life flourishing is not the traditional goal of business, culture, and design. Sustainable Graphic Design defined this way is different than "regular" cultural production.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Throughout western art and design history new or “different” thinking and tools correlate with new or different aesthetic outcomes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainability brings with it all manner of new technologies, new social structures, new tools. Should Sustainable graphic design then carry with it additional new forms and aesthetics?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                An example: Selecting a font

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Does a font’s appearance matter as much as the energy and material and social ills it saves? Is selecting a font that uses minimal ink the best way to select a font? Would a font that is condensed, that uses up less space (saving paper over a print run; exposure to chemicals to the printer) be better? Can we combine the these? The thinest, most condensed, lightest ink coverage font is the most sustainable? This can easily be taken absurd lengths.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is useful for critiquing design choices; it tackles outcomes from a resource perspective; can show a different "visual languages;" but does it embrace “the welfare of all life?”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainable Graphic Design looks Ideological & Critical?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.” With “the welfare of all life” as our world view, how does that shift what and how we graphic design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are proponents of “Critical Design,” design that “provides a critique of the prevailing situation through designs that embody alternative social, cultural, technical, or economic values.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainable graphic design is not just design that helps people and our planet, but design that is also critical of existing social, cultural, technical, AND economic structures; since many of these things are harming all life, not helping them to flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Example: Green Acres

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses, and Abandoned Lots was a book I worked on with my friend and curator Sue Spaid, for the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, OH. Green Acres featured artists using farming as their art practice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The goal: make the resultant book "sustainable." These were sustainability focused artists, how could I represent their ecological inventiveness in a printed book? The things that made the production of this book "sustainable" were that it was printed on demand, and used recycled, unbleached paper.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Visually, the book's design was meant to be _critical_; the juxtaposition of small art farm graphics vs. giant commercial farm references via a constrained square grid and the aerial commercial farmland photography. (» Critical Design)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                While the book intends to say something different, it conforms to common standards of "good" modernist layout. Other than a minor production method improvement, it's the same … ! Is it Sustainable Graphic Design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Good Formalism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                We judge graphic design using visual criteria for "formal goodness" or "beauty" from the systems we must be critical of.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The principles of "good" modernist design are so embedded in culture that they are the principles of "good" graphic designing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Jerome Harris

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Contemporary formal goodness evolved from late 19th through mid-20th centuries western art traditions. The formal concepts of Modernist Capitalism do not so far seem to lead to all life flourishing (it's usually the opposite!).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What new criteria for formal goodness or "beauty" are necessary for Sustainable designs!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (And, if a modern design is made by modernists, then sustainable design is made by sustainabilitists?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What is beautiful design anyway?}

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton writes: “To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to our flourishing. A transubstantiation of our individual ideals in a material medium.” This would then seem that however our ideals are materialized into graphic design yields “beautiful” graphic design. Botton specifically mentions "values critical to our flourishing." If we merge Botton's idea with our "all life flourishing" focused graphic design then sustainable design IS beautiful design. This doesn't imply a style or aesthetic, but instead a shared set of values. We get other criteria to help judge the goodness of a design, not purely formal, but the content, the context.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainable designers must see the non-sustainable as the less than beautiful. If your design doesn't account for the welfare of all life, whatever the external aesthetics that wrap it, your design is ugly. Edwin Datschefksi calls this “the hidden ugliness of traditional products.” Basically, the non-sustainable is (& can only be) ugly.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                So: A design is both sustainable AND beautiful when its form declares that humans and all other life should flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Molly Bawn, 1878

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How can both "Sustainable Design = Beautiful Design" AND "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" be true?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                “There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Stendhal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It's not a new idea that beauty isn't the same for everyone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                — David Hume, _Essays, Moral and Political_, 1742

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How Does a sustainabilitist account for pluralities as to what constitutes “beautiful?” How do we begin to share "all life flourishing" as an overarching socio-cultural value?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                But! If you design for the welfare of all life, it doesn't matter what the design looks like, the design will be beautiful!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                An Idea: Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Instead of what does sustainable graphic design look like then, a more important question is what values underpin your sustainable graphic design? Or, what values does your sustainable graphic design signal out to the world?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How does your design makes tangible, makes understandable, something about sustainability?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is doable no matter the project; no matter the prompt. There are myriad aspects of climate change and sustainability one might signal. Each even in their tiniest part we can think of as contributing to "all life flourishing."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is another opportunity to find the context for which "beauty" exists in a design without resorting to superficial, external styling. We can focus on values or ethics in the unique contexts of each new project.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Amager Bakke Vapor Ring

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A concept that was never made due to some weird problems; but that sent me down this direction: The Copenhagen waste to energy plant is so clean its exhaust stack puffs only CO2 and water vapor. (Its also a public ski hill and hiking mountain) Upon capturing 1 ton of CO2, exhausts it as a smoke ring. Help you visualize this otherwise intangible aspect of sustainability!? (Bjarke Ingels Group)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (FACT CHECK NOTES FROM ISABEL!?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Images? what else?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Reverberation Crosswalks

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Reverberation Crosswalks are fun, brightly colored crosswalks. Just paint on cement and asphalt they still signal a sustainable vector forward. The neighborhood around this intersection is now more walkable. You can't not notice the crosswalks. They contribute to life flourishing in the city. This concept is cheap; fast; easily replicated; can be customized for region, culture, available materials, etc. (Graham Coreil Allen)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                solar.lowtechmagazine.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Low Tech Magazine's solar powered website signals how we might visualize energy usage; how we might enable new systems of powering our tools; questions if we really need constant connection; and how aesthetic choices correlate to physical resources even in the digital sphere. (Kris De Decker & Marie Otsuka)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                DC High Water Mark Project

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The DC water mark project visualizes increased flooding and water level rise. The water level rings articulate "oh shit, this place might be underwater pretty frequently given our current projected future!" By signaling this, perhaps we can act accordingly and redirect our present towards a future where that is no longer true. Without _seeing_ your house or office or favorite park area submerged, even symbolically, you cannot envision an alternative. (Curry J. Hackett / Wayside Studio)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Tattfoo Tan, *S.O.S. Steward*

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Enrolled in various courses and acquired certification for sustainable/green knowledge. To flaunt new found titles, created merit patches to be worn on gray coveralls during events and gardening sessions. <http://tattfoo.com/sos/SOSGreenStewardship.html> (Tattfoo Tan & S.O.S. Steward)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Cradle To Cradle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The cradle to cradle books are signs signaling sustainability. C2C is a "technical" nutrient — the entire book is made to be taken back into a production process — the pages are plastic, the ink reclaimable. The Upcycle is instead a biological nutrient, made to decompose and return to the cycles of nature. Paper, ink, binding, is all made to biodegrade… This fully signals the ideology of Cradle to Cradle. (Michael Braungart and William McDonough (with the design Paul Sahre))

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Conclusion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                “There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. It is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular place in which it occurs.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Christopher Alexander

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The qualities that do promote the welfare of all life are, like the quality without a name Alexander presents, ineffable. And like the quality without a name, the aesthetics that correspond with this — the graphic design visuals that might show the welfare of all life — shift and change with different contexts. A wild garden, a biodegradable book, a thriving farmers market.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In prepping this lecture I was looking for the thread that connected my works together. That thread I thought was: what does sustainable graphic design look like? Everything I make continues to be an attempt at providing more answers to this.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                But, I used to be hung up on the visual aesthetics. I wanted sustainable things to LOOK DIFFERENT to have their own aesthetic… but what I've learned is that the way sustainable graphic design looks isn't as important as the values underpinning the designs themselves. Anything that helps promote the flourishing of nature’s interconnected systems will look "correct" formally. That doesn’t require a (externally decided) particular style, material, or typeface.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Example: MICA Grad Zine

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is an interim piece for the MICA graduate admissions office. Visually the goal was to convey the diversity of graduate programs, as well as some of the current chaos of our present. Different graduate directors were trying to convey the values of their programs, could the visuals contribute to that. AND, there was an ask for the piece to embrace "sustainability."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                So, the design decisions are all spurred by those constraints. Free, open, accessible culture is an important value of mine, and that makes its way into this via the imagery selected and the open source fonts. This also gave me ways to find "art historically" relevant images, and repurpose them to my meaning making.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The printing solution was designed to minimize printing waste — the front and back of this "poster" are printed all as one plate, so the press sheet goes through the press once, then is flipped over, and goes through the press again, voila. This means front and back of the pages were able to all be printed with one plate per color instead of two or more… All of these "values" intermingled here together, do they add up to a sustainable design? a beautiful design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A Final Example: Ecovention Europe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Fast forward from Green Acres. Sue Spaid, now living in Belgium, has a new exhibition: Ecovention Europe, ecologically inventive artists working in Europe, and there is another book.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In the interim since Green Acres, I heard designer Sara de Bondt discuss the Radical Nature catalog designed for the Barbican in London. De Bondt's studio wrote a sustainable printing manifesto as part of the research for the catalog's production.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                De Bondt's "manifesto" reminded me about constraints for framing design decisions: How might I re-examine the design choices of _Green Acres_ through new constraints? Could I improve the sustainability (and the sustainable aesthetics) for _Ecovention Europe_?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                One of the items in De Bondt's printing manifesto is "use less ink." This meant selecting colors more carefully. The palette of _Ecovention Europe_ uses no color that adds up to more that 100% ink coverage. (_Ecovention Europe_ uses CMYK: and color palette swatches start at 100% pure C, M, Y, or K, and then are mixed in equal percentages to keep 100% or less total coverage: 50% + 50%; 33% + 33% + 33%; etc.). This resulted in a color palette that was fairly special for this book. Reducing ink also led to a graphic solution, bitmapped city aerial photos as the decorative section markers. The appearance of a filled area is kept, but less ink is used comparatively.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Text columns in _Green Acres_ ended at full paragraphs breaks to make editing easier. This gave a formally-nice rhythm to text columns, but it was an inefficient use of space. With _Ecovention Europe_, I reduced this space by running all the text the full column heights. This had the secondary benefit of minimizing superfluous decoration: In _Green Acres_, superficial decorative elements filled those blanks left by text columns ending mid-page.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I even tried to reduce decision making through reuse. The grid for _Green Acres_ had a lot of conceptual reasoning invested into it, and so I reused the page templates, type choices, grid setup, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                As a conceptual exercise, this was great. But, did it make much of a difference? How could this be done differently and improved upon again next time? Is there an alternative to making this book at all? (Should this exist? I didn’t ask that question before we began!)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Lee Smolin

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Leslie Speer

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                People Doing People Things Personal Friend

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Less Software

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Driving Concepts Getting Real Quote
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Keep your code as simple as possible
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                each time you increase the amount of code, your software grows exponentially more complicated
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Instead of trying to predict future problems, you deal only with the problems of today

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/10.1-less-software

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Let us revise our definition of design a final time

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                23rd August 2021 at 11:04pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Definition note The Philosophy of Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Design is the intentional solution of a problem, by the creation of plans for a new sort of thing, where the plans would not be immediately seen, by a reasonable person, as an inadequate solution.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (TPOD p11 ¶3 L1)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Anything else, quotes, references, etc. are subject to the whims of their creators.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      some reference for LinkExplorer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I don't know exactly why/how this works. I figured out a thing on my own, then added the list around thanks to something from Grok TiddlyWiki, but it didn't work exactly, so this solution is a hack between Soren Bjornstad's work and my own!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I had this:

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Linus Torvald

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      23rd June 2021 at 5:31pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Linus' work on his project, the Linux kernel, is the foundation of the Open Source movement. See Linus's Law from Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      23rd June 2021 at 5:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Linus Unix

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      See Linus Torvald

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Linux is finally becoming valuable for Design/DTP area

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Linux is finally becoming valuable for Design/DTP area as it has been for long on the Internet/Web and programming areas. But you can’t expect The Gimp to surpass Photoshop. At least not in the next few years. And this is the reality. If we can, we must train our students to use the best tools available. Ideally all tools available, so they won’t have problems when faced with a tool professionally.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Lo—TEK

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      8th July 2021 at 5:05pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Local Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A design movement to rebuild an understanding of indigenous philosophy and vernacular architecture that generates sustainable, climate-resilient infrastructure.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      From Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      8th July 2021 at 5:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9783836578189
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Taschen
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2020

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A good book for The Sustainabilitist to read!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Long Term Health Implications of Air Pollution

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Looking back at my work?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        27th August 2021 at 11:48pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Lecture Nebraska

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Prep for Nebraska Lecture

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I have spent a lot of time lately looking through old works, reading through old essays and lectures... just trying to analyze what I've done; go back to existing presentations and lectures...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I've been struck by a couple of things.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. My work is all over the place. Different aesthetics, different mediums, different scales...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. I have a hard time staying focused on one thing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. I do a lot of repetitive processes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. While materials, forms, etc. might sometimes change, there seem to be some real commonalities...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Okay, so I am gonna go through a couple of my favorite works from the last twenty years. I'll try to point out quickly what was good about them, how they came to be, why they are the way they are...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This will be part revisionist history, part utopian speculation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Cellular Distortions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • The Sustainabilitist Principles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Design a Days 2010
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Green Acres / EcoVention Europe
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Free/Libre Design Explorations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Situationist Lamps
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • A Permaculture Garden
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Low Carbon Urban Homestead

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Does any of this matter?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What does design do? and what does it mean?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sustainability as flourishing. What does this mean for designing? we strive for a context in which all life can flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Design and the welfare of all life. How does this change how design is practiced and defined?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Looking Closer 5

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Looking Closer 5: Critical Writings on Graphic Design (Bk. 5) Paperback – January 15, 2007

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          by Michael Beirut (Editor), William Drenttel (Editor), Steven Heller (Editor)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. This collection of essays takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional and general interest design magazines, as well as on blogs and Internet journals. Prominent contributors include Milton Glaser, Maud Lavin, Ellen Lupton, Victor Margolin, Mr. Keedy, David Jury, Alice Twemlow, Steven Heller, Jessica Helfand, William Drenttel, Michael Bierut, Michael Dooley, Nick Curry, Emily King, and more. Among the important themes discussed: design as popular culture, design as art, politics, aesthetics, social responsibility, typography, the future of design, and more. Students, graphic designers beginning their careers, and veterans seeking fresh perspective will savor this anthology gathered from some of today’s top graphic design writers and practitioners, as well as commentators from outside the profession. From the series that helped launch the design criticism movement and was the first to anthologize graphic design criticism from key sources, this volume promises to be the most provocative of all!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Looks are deceiving

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Mahatma Gandhi

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Upkeep. Fixing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Maintenance over new creation

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Make Design Thoughts Public

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Designing Designing note Quote The Bits That Make Up A Design Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Human Functionalism: Making design thoughts public so that they are not limited to the experience of the designer and can incorporate scientific knowledge of human abilities and limitations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Make Opinionated Software

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Make this a conversation

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Making things isn't the goal

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative. The future of the company would go far beyond its current project of building a set of connected social apps and some hardware to support them. Instead, he said, Facebook would strive to build a maximalist, interconnected set of experiences straight out of sci-fi — a world known as the metaverse.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mark Z. Jacobson

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Co-Founder, The Solutions Project, 100.org, and the 100% Clean, Renewable Energy Movement

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Marshall McLuhan

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Author People Doing People Things Philosophy Visionary

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC was a Canadian philosopher, whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Martin Heideggar

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Maryland Institute College of Art

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                22nd July 2021 at 11:30pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                An Art and Design college.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mass is reduced by…

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Getting Real Less Software
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Just-in-time thinking
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Multi-tasking team members
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Embracing constraints, not trying to lift them
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Less software, less code
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Less features
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Small team size
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Simplicity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Pared-down interfaces
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Open-source products
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Open data formats
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • An open culture that makes it easy to admit mistakes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/03.1-less-mass

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Massive Change

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Matthew Ball

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                McMansion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                19th July 2021 at 2:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Also, see McMansion Hell

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Principle Semiotics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                All great works that elicit responses have one thing in common: they mean something. We must focus on intent, purpose, and substance—the context—along with form and function.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Meditation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Dissatisfaction Game

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What is it for?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mediation was for training your brain not to be constantly disatisfied with pain and struggle in your life.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mel Robbins

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                22nd October 2021 at 12:44am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Mel Robbins on Confidence

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  22nd October 2021 at 12:43am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Confidence Mel Robbins

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  linkedIn learning course that was interesting. quick, easy listen with some simple mental games to try and retrain your brain for confident action.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Mental Pain

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Dissatisfaction Game

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Mental pain, if we let it, will stick with us forever.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The meaning we create is what actually makes us suffer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Mercedes WVO conversion

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The metaverse is having a moment. Coined in Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson’s 1992 sci-fi novel, the term refers to a convergence of physical, augmented, and virtual reality in a shared online space.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    from Mark In The Metaverse

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    MICA Grad Zine 2020

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Michel Foucalt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      29th August 2021 at 11:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Foucalt invites us to consider life as a work of art (JOMO P83 ¶2 L13)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Minimum Viable Product

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Software development has a methodology called “agile” whose goal is quickly solving, resolving, and iterating solutions. The first step is to come up with the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). This MVP doesn’t have all the features nor polish. Its goal is to achieve the minimum requirements as rapidly as possible. The next iteration tries to refine and fix found issues, builds more feature robustness, or sometimes re-imagines or re-builds the solution a different way if the first proved to have too many bugs or conceptual holes. Design teaching (and design making) benefits from adopting this ideology. Things do not have to be “finished” to allow a student to grow. Doing, failing, and moving on can be more useful for understanding than refining towards an unrealistic formal ideal.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        We are currently starting from rest. Once underway, our processes and ideals will carry themselves into culture, manufacturing, and government by their own momentum. First we must change the inertia of our current operations—doing whatever possible to slow its progression.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        MonthExplorer

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Murray Bookchin

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Anarchist, Writer, Lecturer, Thinker... seems like someone I should learn more about.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Myles Horton

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Nebraska Lecture Outline + Notes

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Big Ideas Lecture Pragmatic Utopian

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A starting place: 020210303222832 Entry

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Create a new “Essay-A-Day” tiddler

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Create a new source (Book, Video, Etc.)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            “If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            R. Buckminster Fuller

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Nick Wignall

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Online therapist? mental health/wellness coach? I don't know I found a few of his blog posts and found them somewhat helpful.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              No one has a single perfect way…

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              So who cares; stop worrying so much about finding "the" way!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              No One Is Perfect

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                No one wakes up with the goal of destroying the planet

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                No one wakes up with the goal of destroying the planet… Yet each day our collective choices do just that.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                UN Sustainable Development Goals

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                End poverty in all its forms everywhere

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                NOAA

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory Trends in CO2

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                currentco2ppm meta Source

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Where I am choosing to gather my info for each entry's CO2 PPM reading.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is run by the NOAA, and they base it on their Muana Loa, Hawaii facility's data

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The instructions I followed to get TiddlyWiki working for this repo: https://tiddlywiki.com/#Installing%20TiddlyWiki%20on%20Node.js

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Novel visuals through new ideological territory

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Innovators we’ve historically documented in the west are known for novel visuals, but got to those novel visuals through new ideological territory; through experimenting with different ways of thinking. Avant garde visuals stemming from these movements were the result of the ideas (or ideals) to come out of their novel thinking, not necessarily the main ideas themselves. Our past is not about style for style’s sake, but style that illuminates a theoretical position (or at least style that is arrived at from a thought process, from a set of values, or from some set of hypotheses).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Nuclear and Coal are Obsolete

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Energy Security

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                These are not Peaking Power Plants

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                They are Base Load, but base load isn't a useful power generation concept anymore.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Observe an object for 5 minutes everyday

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Know your fish?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ala “In the Laboratory With Agassiz,” by Samuel H. Scudder and OBT: Mindfullness: Observing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Omayeli Arenyeka

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                25th August 2021 at 10:51am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Omayeli is an artist and technologist from Nigeria currently playing with data at the Recurse Center in NYC. Her most recent projects include Face the Music, a Glitch app that lets you make and record music with your facial expressions, and Art Connoisseur, a Twitter bot that interprets and comments on historical art.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  On Mending

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Jun 14, 2013

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  My father used to take our lawn mower to the small engine repairman. Here was this guy in his garage-turned-shop surrounded by mowers, outboards, dirt-bikes, and various unidentifiable mechanical contraptions — and he knew how to make them all work! I respected that when I was a kid. I respect that now as an adult. Few others these days seem to. My father (and most of my childhood friends’ fathers) seemed to know either a) how to fix something, or b) that person in town best suited to fix whatever they could not. Where is that knowledge now?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I’ve been trying to fix a lot of broken things around my house lately, so “mending” has just generally been on my mind. It’s also meant that most days over the last several weeks have required a trip to the neighborhood hardware store (thank god there actually is a neighborhood hardware store) for some kind of glue, tool, or clamp. This immediately sheds light on one of the problems of repairing things: it can take an incredible amount of time. Besides being time intensive, it can seem monetarily expensive too — buying the right tools or hiring a handyman, technician, or repairman seems like more expense than just buying a new toaster or bookshelf.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I find no satisfaction in having to go out and buy a new “stuff” (pairs of jeans, sunglasses, shoes, dressers, bookshelves — whatever “stuff” you might have around) every time a thing breaks or wears out. I do feel an actual reward, despite the inconvenience, when I’ve repaired something — my things are fixed, and fixed by my own doing (or my having had the smarts to find a skilled person to fix them — philosophically “I” still fixed it). It might not be “perfect” anymore, but it is definitely more mine. The objects become more meaningful: I have something of myself (or of the friend or handyman who helped with the repair) in the object now, and I hopefully know a little bit more about the construction or function of the repaired thing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Once you start mending things you notice that there are always more things to mend. The hardships one must endure to “mend” are enough that I can see why we’ve moved from a repairing culture towards a replacing culture. We don’t fix things because we are convinced culturally to replace them, and the replaceable things we buy aren’t really designed to be fixable in the first place (either by being too ephemeral [cheap electronics] or being intentionally unrepairable [expensive iPods]) — so we lose the option, and with that the ability, to mend things in the first place.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    On Practicing

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A good teacher helps students realize that simply having access to tools does not result in expertise. Understanding a tool takes patience, time, and practice. We must practice using software, seeing accurate form, and crafting ideas just like we had to practice drawing, bicycling, or piano playing. This takes time. The process is frustrating. A good teacher integrates practice as part of applying a tool to a larger idea, not just practicing the tool itself (facilitating understanding over mere learning). Students should be encouraged to spend time outside of class practicing their making and practicing their thinking with new and different tools. Explorations following that encouragement may lead to less-than aesthetically wonderful results. This is not failure. Not everything need end with perfect, precise materials.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      On Tools

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Design educators don’t usually teach letterpress as a technique. In fact, we rarely bother physically printing anything nor go through the trouble of rubbing letraset at different sizes down to make mockups and better understand the printer/designer relationship. We just jump into using Illustrator and InDesign as form making tools, and then make everything from sketches to “finished” things almost entirely with digital tools totally abstracted from the physical printing process. We show students the software interface for doing the tasks that people until very recently had to know how to do in some other way, typically analog and very hands-on. WYSIWYG tools for web-design are basically the same.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I know Dreamweaver is historically NOT a good GUI/WYSIWYG editor, and experiences with a bad tool might make it seem that this road is one best left untravelled. However, there are now a plethora of online services and site-builders that allow for fairly high fidelity drag-and-drop and point-and-click site building. Familiarity with stuff like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign is then directly translatable to the building of decent websites.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Within a few years there will be powerful visual web editors and truly very few people really will have to know how to literally code to build rudimentary (and probably fairly complex) sites and apps — just like few practicing designers have used any other creation tool for printed works other than InDesign.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Dreamweaver’s past problems revolved around creating dirty code and perpetuating out of date practices. If new tools are based on contemporary ideals, and produce the kinds of markup contemporary standards desire, there is no reason that said mythical tool couldn’t help to make understanding basics simpler, prototyping ideas faster, and allow for more creation in the digital realm by designers that are turned off by looking at plaintext documents.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      What was kept in the transition from making print mockups and printed documents “by hand” to making them on the computer were all the concepts and principles of “Good Design.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      So, then the thing that is most important isn’t deciding between whether we teach coding or make use of a specific tool, but that we decide what “Good Design” means from a digital design, user experience, and interactivity perspective. Then it’s just figuring out how to explain and practice that regardless of the tools.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      To then come full circle, you could actually learn HTML and CSS instead of any of these other things and at this point nearly omit the learning of InDesign. HTML/CSS is getting pretty amazing in the layout and typographic control departments. Coupled with a slick JS or other server setup that can render PDFs nicely from simple HTML/CSS instructions one can actually design printed works to a fairly high level of control with web technologies now — provided you want to learn a bit about setting up a server environment.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      So,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • There is no tool to rule them all.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Every modern tool is an abstraction.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Learning what “Good Design” means is the important thing — not that you learn a specific tool.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Only a spiral galaxy can bring forth new stars perpetually.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      “Only a spiral galaxy can bring forth new stars perpetually.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • April Greiman

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      https://www.are.na/block/2612881

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      OOKB

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      27th June 2021 at 2:30am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      OOKB: The Office of Kristian Bjørnard

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This is the acronym for the "studio" that Kristian Bjørnard runs!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      OOKB Styles

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      6th September 2021 at 2:04pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      6th September 2021 at 4:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      F/LOS Daily: Towards an Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A search for “Open Source Design” online returns The Open Source Design Manifesto by Garth Braithwaite, a designer working on open source projects at Adobe. Braithwaite’s manifesto made a simple starting point in understanding how F/LOS impacts graphic design. The manifesto reads:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I will:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • find opportunities to design in the open
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • share my design experiences; both the good and the bad
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • find time for meaningful projects
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • openly participate in design discussions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • work with other designers by choice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • improve my toolbox

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      In a 2013 talk called “Designers Can Open Source,” Braithwaite explains actions and behaviors designers might adopt for the “open-ness” the manifesto aims to inspire. The main tenant is to share more: “Sharing process, especially the failures, really helps” and “post as you are working, show how things evolve.” This creates an ecosystem where designers are more collaborative and more open with their neighbors — more unselfconscious — making design knowledge more effectively shared. Taking Braithwaite’s ideas to heart, our class made sharing and communicating a goal. To facilitate this we moved our class’ project files to repositories on Github (Braithwaite mentions Github as a tool for sharing and collaborating for codebases, we tried it for designing). We wanted to earnestly “design in the open.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Open-sourcerer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      27th June 2021 at 5:03am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      One who uses F/LOS tools, content, systems, etc. Not just uses, but also contributes back to; participates in; creates their own open cultural output.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      16th June 2021 at 12:20am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Otis Safety Elevator

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Otis Self Braking Elevator

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        our collective capacity to design a more hopeful tomorrow

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        21st August 2021 at 10:31pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        We have seen and experienced that governments around the world can act on a global challenge, and that people can change their behaviour, in a very short amount of time. That should make us stubbornly optimistic about our collective capacity to design a more hopeful tomorrow

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Outcome Based Thinking

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          22nd July 2021 at 11:25pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Mental Model

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Plug into your hard-wired happiness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          We live in a world where what we think of, what we invest in, is the outcome.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Outdoor Sculpture Park Signage

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          19th July 2021 at 2:47pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Pace Layer Thinkers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            21st August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Pace Layers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            21st August 2021 at 11:47pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Fashion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Commerce
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Infrastructure
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Government
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Culture
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Nature

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            This comes from Stewart Brand explains the different speed various layers of society moves.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The job of fashion and art is to be froth—quick, irrelevant, engaging, self-preoccupied, and cruel. Try this! No, no, try this! It is culture cut free to experiment as creatively and irresponsibly as the society can bear. From all that variety comes driving energy for commerce (the annual model change in automobiles) and the occasional good idea or practice that sifts down to improve deeper levels, such as governance becoming responsive to opinion polls, or culture gradually accepting “multiculturalism” as structure instead of just entertainment.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            wonderfully gone over here: https://www.noahbrier.com/archives/2018/08/framework-of-the-day-pace-layers/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            and this: http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2015/02/11/stewart-brand-and-paul-saffo-at-the-interval/

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Pain and Suffering is not always damaging to people

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Dissatisfaction Game

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Kazimierz Dąbrowski

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sometimes you need to suffer a certain amount to change and grow.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Patricia Johanson

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                15th June 2021 at 11:08am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Artist, Designer, Environmental Inventor, Creator of spaces and natural sculptures

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Paul Hawken

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                22nd July 2021 at 11:02pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Paul Virilio

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                19th August 2021 at 10:07am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Paulo Freire

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 3:22pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Author People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Early influential practitioner of Empowerment Education and community organizing

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Peaking Power Plants

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Energy Security

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  We need peaking power plants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Flexible, on-demand, fast ramping power generation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Meet need of the consumer, not the needs of the power companies/coal companies.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Pedagogy of the Oppressed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 2:14pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  978-0826412768

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  People and the Planet are not in competition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  20th August 2021 at 2:00pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Quote Web

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ‘We should not see people and the planet in competition with each other’, says Johanna Fabrin. ‘Humans should be part of the equation, but not at the expense of everything else. We can only create a good life for people if we create a good life for the planet.’

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    19th July 2021 at 2:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    These are people.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    And, the things people do.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    People go around doing people things. What exactly constitutes a person thing? when, if ever, are people NOT doing people things? Are there good or bad people things? or are people things inert? Can animals do people things? can people do non-people things?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    People to Contact, and reliably stay in contact with

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    9th August 2021 at 4:55pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Person Doing Person Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    19th July 2021 at 2:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Philosopher Greg Bamford offers a definition of the activity of “Design”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    17th August 2021 at 6:15pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Definition note The Philosophy of Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Someone designs thing X at time t if and only if:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. She imagine or describes X at t
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. While supposing that X at least partially satisfies some set of requirements R under conditions C and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Satisfying R is a problem for which
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. X is a novel or original solution

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    (TPOD p10 ¶2 L5)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    paraphrased:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    design is the intentional solution of a problem by the creation of plans for a new sort of thing […] we can now define the noun “design” as the problem-solving plan generated by this activity.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    (TPOD p10 ¶4 L3)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Physical vs. Mental Pain

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Meditation The Dissatisfaction Game

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Plug into your hard-wired happiness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    22nd July 2021 at 11:26pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ted Talk by Srikumar Rao

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We all strive for happiness – but we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, says Srikumar Rao. In this practical talk, he teaches how to break free of the "I'd be happy if ..." mental model, and embrace our hard-wired happiness.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Politics + Fossil Fuels

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    24th June 2021 at 9:52am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “Our politics co-evolved with a century of fossil fuels, and so a huge portion of our regulations still favor the incumbent, which is fossil fuels,” Saul Griffith, a scientist and founder of a nonprofit, said.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    from NYtimes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This is part of the problem

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Poor Life Model

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    22nd July 2021 at 11:25pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Outcome Based Thinking & Have-Do-Be

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We define our life in the following way: here I am, here is where I want to go, here are the steps to get there, and if I don't then I fail.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Positive Disintegration

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Dissatisfaction Game

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Post-environmentalism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      8th July 2021 at 5:07pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Environmentalism isn't fully encompassing enough.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Post-traumatic Growth

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Dissatisfaction Game

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Poster Workshop Image Resources

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          14th July 2021 at 11:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Utah Workshop 202103111331

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Power Price for Renewables Keeps Going Down

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Energy Security

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          PPM

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          22nd July 2021 at 11:17pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Parts Per Million. Unit of measure.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Pragmatism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Definition Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • How do I apply this better to my everyday life?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Precious Plastics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Big Ideas

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Make your own plastic recycling equipment and stuff

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Precision in design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Precision in contemporary design is not about who can make the most meticulously perfect artifact, but about who can master enough myriad skills and techniques that their vision and talent is applicable to any medium — we shall embrace trans-media comfort. (Formal perfection is still a valiant aim, but it is no longer the only goal.)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            presence-at-hand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Heidegger Philosophy Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            when you’re aware of the tool as a tool, as an object in itself, that’s presence-at-hand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Print on Demand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            30th September 2021 at 1:22am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Prioritization

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Driving Concepts Getting Real Pull back on scope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            You have to figure out what’s really important. What’s going to make it into this initial release? This forces a constraint on you which will push you to make tough decisions instead of hemming and hawing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.4-fix-time-and-budget-flex-scope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Problem Solving or Problem finding?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            18th June 2021 at 2:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            23rd August 2021 at 4:44pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            “Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Albert Einstein

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Procrastination

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            19th July 2021 at 2:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            My worst enemy.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Product Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            22nd July 2021 at 11:30pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            People I know who are Product Designers:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Products are the source of all environmental problems

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            22nd June 2021 at 10:46am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Quote The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Progress and Poverty

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            14th August 2021 at 3:30pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Project Drawdown

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            25th August 2021 at 2:12pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Organization

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Providing amazing solutions and concrete data about the best ways to get CO2 back out of the atmosphere (this is what drawdown is intended to mean) and into various carbon sinks

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping catastrophic climate change — as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Project: Reuse

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6th August 2021 at 3:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Project Reuse

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Try to make visuals from external contexts, GD that looks the same?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Project: Zine Workshop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            22nd October 2021 at 12:48am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Climate Designers Constraint Project Project: Reuse Reuse

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Learning to work within constraints

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Part 1.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            For the first hour (is an hour long enough??)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Find all the used/waste paper that you can find. Search recycling bins, your old flatfiles, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Nothing new
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • I guess new old stock is okay?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Take from the recycling or the trash
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Nothing soiled or wrinkled (it needs to go through a printer cleanly!)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Trim it all to 8.5x11
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • This way, if you find some scrap that is larger than letter, we're already prepared to use it later... more kinds of scrap might become available?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Nothing smaller than 8.5x11

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Part 2.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Design! So, how much paper did we collect? how many copies do we need to make? let's figure out a page count then. Do we want to print double sided? french fold?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Once we have a page count, well, what is going to be our content, and how will we use the space and divy up the work?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Go over the sustainable print guidelines, how can we let the constraints of less, etc. influence design decisions/directions? does this relate to the content at all?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Needs for workshop:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Laser or Riso printer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Spiral/Coil binder of some kind that can at least do a half letter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • ???

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Projective Verse

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6th July 2021 at 1:05pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Prompt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            21st August 2021 at 10:47pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            meta

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Things I wish to start more ideas? Prompts for writing and designing and acting.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Prompts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2nd July 2021 at 4:40pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Collection

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This is related to but different than Prompt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — This pulls the prompts I have actually used for the different daily writings from the fields themselves, it isn't just a list of potential prompts...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Proprietary advantages?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 11:34pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Proprietary software developers have the advantages money provides; free software developers need to make advantages for each other.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Publics and Counter Publics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              article to read

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Pull back on scope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Getting Real Launch on time and on budget

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                If you can’t fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don’t expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.4-fix-time-and-budget-flex-scope

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Pure Content

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Concept

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Pursue Ideas Without Fear

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                6th September 2021 at 1:48pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                But How?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                but how!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Quality

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Better, happier, more fulfilling: this is what quality shall mean in sustainable design. The aim is to provide quality to everyone in elegant, elemental ways. Our goal is a higher standard. Flimsy, inferior goods and services have no place in our sustainable future.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Quality (TP)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Quality Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A good teacher (and a good designer) must believe that one thing is better than another. However, a good teacher doesn’t assume that design results in only one sort of “nice” thing. When using design as a critical tool, there must be room for the “ugly” and the “negative” in addition to the “beautiful” and the “uplifting.” Ugly and negative aren’t the same as “bad” and can still be of quality. A good teacher must help each student explore and articulate “goodness” in their own eyes — in the works students make themselves and in work that students admire.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Question

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 3:34pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Questioning = Creating

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 2:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  To create is not just to create objects … Coming up with a question is also creation—the very essence of a question is its power to elicit the possibilities of reply, to collect a variety of thoughts… I believe that the richness of thinking may be the critical resource needed to give this world a future.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Big Ideas Pedagogy Performance Process Prompt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Quote

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  26th July 2021 at 1:15pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  R. Buckminster Fuller

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  16th June 2021 at 12:19am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  People Doing People Things Toward Tomorrow Fair

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  One of the most mythologically great designers of the 20th century.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Books:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Re-wilding the Bauhaus

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  14th July 2021 at 11:19pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Re: Kristian Bjørnard's A thought while I was gardening:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    24th August 2021 at 11:28pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A response on Are.na to a flippant block I created.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I agree with the overall idea of teaching design students to be 'active parts of the world' rather than industry cogs. But I think there must be a better way to make the argument than this:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “Design as a personal, ideological, or political action is important and useful; design as an industry is not.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Not because I think design in the latter sense is important, but because I'm not convinced design in the former sense is that important either. At least, not design specifically. Political, ideological, and personal activity in general have value and significance, and that should be enough justification for trying to instill them in students. This is the whole idea of a liberal arts education, in my eyes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    To hone in on design specifically as a force of change is to unduly assume it has some special contribution to make. It seems to me the only reason designers are inclined to do this is because they can't see beyond their own discipline, and they have to feel like their own discipline is doing something uniquely important.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Part of some more complex conversation that also includes commentary on https://www.are.na/block/10063082

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    My initial comment,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “Design as a personal, ideological, or political action is important and useful; design as an industry is not.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    was in response to some frustrations I have as a professor. Namely where students show up in a design classroom specifically to be shown or taught how to be a part of design AS an industry. The interest is in getting a design job, not becoming a designer. Well, becoming a designer because it is seen as a discipline that directly has jobs with what you've learned in the title.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    when I say "Design as a personal, ideological, or political action is important and useful" I mean that "design" in and of itself is, as Glenn Parsons put it in The Philosophy of Design, "the intentional solution of a problem, by the creation of plans for a new sort of thing" — to me for design defined this way to be useful, or important, is that one's designing does connect to some personal or ideological action — if you are intentionally solving problems for someone else that you think are the wrong problems to solve, well, I don't think that is very important. Design the industry is often about solving external problems that you as designer have little connection to, or may even be ideologically against if you pause and think for a moment. And they might even be "problems" that the client doesn't really have connection to other than they think there is money to be made.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In another post/comment chain you mention a metaphor relating design to creative writing. I think this is a good way to think about things. Creative writing is a skill that anyone can benefit from, any job, any place that a person interacts with other people, if you are a practiced writer you can improve said situation. Particularly if you can be creative in understanding the vernacular and contexts of a situation and deliver the message accordingly. I see graphic design, or just more generally design, similarly. Any situation, any interest, it can be improved through design.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I don't mean this from the business perspective, like how every startup has a chief design officer or whatever now, and design is seen as a way to monetize more aspects of a persons time or psyche…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I digress.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Now you mention elsewhere how "design" is or isn't particular things. I guess maybe to me that's another issue I have with "design as industry" — it does fairly heavily limit the context for counts or doesn't count as "design." Many of my favorite artists and chefs and scientists, when they explain their processes, I say to myself, that's a design methodology, I get how they do their craft, their process makes sense, the output is a plate of food, or an observable experiment, but ...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Maybe this can best be summed up as Doing Design is Important; Being a Designer is not.?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    readiness-at-hand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Heidegger Philosophy Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    When you’re using a tool to accomplish something and you’re not aware of it, that’s readiness-at-hand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Reading List

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    23rd June 2021 at 10:33am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    See if its useful to tweak Soren Bjornstad's demo – make a read/unread sources list – does it matter if its been re-read or anything else? how about things I frequently recommend to students or to other designers?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ReadMe?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 3:24pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      June 02021

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      020210601: Trying to get back to writing. Trying to get back to thinking. Trying to get back to clarifying. Writing down ideas and questions and clarifying statements about how sustainability, climate change, design, and life in general might fit together. The hope; well; that I generate something useful for my practice, for my family, and for these communities around me — maybe even that it can be some variety of publishable things. Here's to spaceship earth.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The rules for 020210601 and onward?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Notes for writing:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      - How can I switch things to make sure I use typographers quotes, etc. even if in .md or .txt? and other special characters for typographic excellence... - ???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      as of 020210611 I installed tiddly wiki, use tiddlywiki sad2021tw --listen to make it work!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Reality

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Driving Concepts Getting Real Pull back on scope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Setting expectations is key. If you try to fix time, budget, and scope, you won’t be able to deliver at a high level of quality. Sure, you can probably deliver something, but is “something” what you really want to deliver?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.4-fix-time-and-budget-flex-scope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Recycle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5th July 2021 at 1:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Reduce

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5th July 2021 at 1:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Reduce obstacles to change

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Getting Real

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Change is your best friend. The more expensive it is to make a change, the less likely you’ll make it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      When it comes to web technology, change must be easy and cheap.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/03.2-lower-your-cost-of-change

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Resource

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      14th July 2021 at 11:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Natural and manmade. Ecological and Technical. Something required to do something else.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5th July 2021 at 1:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Reverberation Crosswalks

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      27th August 2021 at 11:27pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      An Idea: Signs Signaling Sustainability Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Reverberation Crosswalks are fun, brightly colored crosswalks. Just paint on cement and asphalt they still signal a sustainable vector forward. The neighborhood around this intersection is now more walkable. You can't not notice the crosswalks. They contribute to life flourishing in the city. This concept is cheap; fast; easily replicated; can be customized for region, culture, available materials, etc. (Graham Coreil Allen)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Revisionist History

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      6th July 2021 at 12:12am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ritual

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2nd July 2021 at 12:38am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      What is a ritual? Why are they important? how can they be harnessed to affect behavior usefully?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • done in accordance with social custom or normal protocol? (from MW)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • the established form for a ceremony (from MW)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Roads aren't just for cars; roads pre-date cars

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Fuck Cars Quote

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Roman Mars on the ideas podcast? (find ep)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Roman Mars

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 11:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Samsara

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      6th July 2021 at 12:35am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Buddha ???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sara De Bondt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      28th September 2021 at 4:59pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Designer, Belgian, Living in London. De-constructor of conceptual ideas and graphic forms. Has a great Walker Insights lecture.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sara De Bondt Walker Insights Lecture

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      28th September 2021 at 4:58pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sara De Bondt is the epitome of a cultural designer, combining a love of contemporary typography with a deep investigation into the history of graphic design. Through her design practice, which consists of client-based work, designing and editing books, and curating conferences, she is consistently contributing to the critical discourse. Her playful aesthetic is always idea-based, typography-driven, and completely fresh. Her clients include the Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels and Nottingham Contemporary as well as projects for the V&A, the Barbican, London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, Camden Arts Center, and MIT Press. Most recently, she took over the art direction of Tate Etc. magazine. In 2008, De Bondt cofounded Occasional Papers, a nonprofit publishing house investigating the histories of architecture, art, design, film, and literature. In 2009, she curated the conference the Form of the Book, which explored the past, present, and future of book design. She received her MFA from Sint-Lukas, Brussels, and completed postgraduate research at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Prior to opening her own studio in 2004, De Bondt worked for Daniel Eatock's Foundation 33 in London. She has taught design at the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and KASK School of Art.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Copresented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sarah Harrison

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 11:09pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Climate Designers People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sarah Templin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 11:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      People Doing People Things Personal Friend

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Schematic Representation of the Educational Process at the BauHaus

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      23rd August 2021 at 2:25pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      note Pedagogy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      50 Years BauHaus

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Now, how do we evolve this schematic for the Sustainability focuses Art/Design college???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Scott Boylston

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      23rd August 2021 at 4:33pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Designer, Author, Professor of Design for Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Semiotics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      How signs signal Meanings...

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      We want the functions objects provide, not the objects themselves. To do this, our appliances and tools must be approached in terms of “services, not stuff” and “use, not own.” The idea of services is against intentional obsolescence and for reusability and repairability.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Setting fire to long extinct life-forms

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 12:29am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Setting fire to long extinct life-forms is the human race's primary industrial enterprise

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Bruce Sterling in Tomorrow Now

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      SGD: 01 What is Worth Sustaining?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      8th July 2021 at 2:48pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Are.na

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Shift the focus of “Graphic Design”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      20th August 2021 at 3:21pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      there are so many things we're NEXT to; so many systems we connect to or interlink with; that have so much burden; the GDer weighs in, but we don't get to do anything about this stuff...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      its just jumping to conclusions and making something to fulfill deliverables and complete something on time...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      shift the status quo toward sustainable solutions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 12:57am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Green graphic design is about using the power of design to shift the status quo toward sustainable solutions.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Brian Dougherty, Green Graphic Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Big Ideas

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      An Idea I've had...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sim Van Der Ryn

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 11:05pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Author People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Simplicity

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 12:26am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Is Simplicity the opposite of Complexity?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 12:25am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Attributed to Albert Einstein

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5th August 2021 at 2:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        0520210131
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimalism, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones), edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Conceptual art means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious, and/or "dematerialized" (pg vii, ¶3, L1)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The times were chaotic and so were our lies. We have each invented our own history, and they don't always mesh; but such messy compost is the source of all version of the past. (pg vii, ¶5, L1)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6th August 2021 at 4:13pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Spontaneous Lamps

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Old wooden toys screwed to wall as a mounting point for a painters/clip on lamp

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6th August 2021 at 4:13pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Spontaneous Lamps

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Foraged bamboo, 5 gallon bucket, found rock/brick rubble, painters/clip on lamp, found lampshade, u bolt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          SL0003

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6th August 2021 at 4:13pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Spontaneous Lamps

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          found piece of maple, painters/clip on lamp, extension cord.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Tension of cord keeps lamp in its temporary place.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Slide One Liners?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          22nd July 2021 at 1:03am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Design has helped to change the world (for better or worse) in gigantic, important ways. Whatever happens next, the world will not be like it is today!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Sustainability is a topic of increased focus
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • The Designer as Sustainabilitist
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • No one wakes up with the goal of destroying the planet… Yet each day our collective choices do just that.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Sometimes we don’t need a better solution to a current problem. Sometimes we need to design a better system all together.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Sustainability is not a fad
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Sustainability is set to change nearly every aspect of our society
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Entrenched interests hate change
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Most designers are in the representation business, so their first response has been to design a poster about sustainability. But the transition to sustainability is not about messages, it’s about activity. John Thackara

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So Many Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 3:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Related, but not quite a duplicate of Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Items tagged with So Many Questions are tiddlers that themselves contain a lot of questions...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          While, the items tagged with Questions are individual questions > that tag should become Question perhaps instead???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So, SGD doesn't exist — well then what?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          31st August 2021 at 5:00pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sustainable Graphic Design Does Not Exist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Okay, so Sustainable Graphic Design doesn't exist. We can look at this from a couple of different angles.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If we keep the definition of "sustainable graphic design" as design for the welfare of all life (or maybe maintaining spaceship earth?) then there are some things to think about in this vein...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. The status quo.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If graphic design maintains the status quo, really in any way, then it just isn't sustainable. We can't help promote or maintain fossil fuels, inefficient energy infrastructure,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Solar ≠ For End of Day

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Peaking Power Plants

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Solar is also not a great Peaking Power Plants solution, at least not at the end of the day when people are returning home.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Solar is useless or providing end of the day peak demand

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            solar panel

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            19th July 2021 at 2:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Solar.LowTechMagazine.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              27th August 2021 at 11:27pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              An Idea: Signs Signaling Sustainability Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Low Tech Magazine's solar powered website signals how we might visualize energy usage; how we might enable new systems of powering our tools; questions if we really need constant connection; and how aesthetic choices correlate to physical resources even in the digital sphere. (Kris De Decker & Marie Otsuka)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Solutions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Better, happier, more fulfilling: this is what quality shall mean in sustainable design. The aim is to provide quality to everyone in elegant, elemental ways. Our goal is a higher standard. Flimsy, inferior goods and services have no place in our sustainable future.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sometimes we don’t need a better solution

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              22nd July 2021 at 12:55am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sometimes we don’t need a better solution to a current problem. Sometimes we need to design a better system all together.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sometimes, less really is more

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Lectures, examples, demos, speakers, videos, readings, and discussions are all great — but can get in the way of what class is also about: providing structured time to practice designing. A good teacher needs to know when to step back, let the students dig into their projects, and wander around the room peering over shoulders and offering small bits of individualized advice.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Soren Bjornstad

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              11th June 2021 at 11:45pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Helpful TiddlyWiki teacher. Minnesotan. I only know of him from a few TW related youtube posts!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              26th July 2021 at 1:17pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Spaceship Earth

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                19th July 2021 at 2:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                An R. Buckminster Fuller-ism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Earth is a self contained object. Other than a bit of solar radiation and the spare meteor, no matter enters earth's systems – we must make do with what we have, there is no resupply mission for spaceship earth.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                6th September 2021 at 4:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                F/LOS Daily: Towards an Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source ran from January to May of 2018 at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). The course asked students to explore F/LOS software and ideologies in producing graphic design. Other than “earnestly experiment with F/LOS tools,” the main projects were working with the MICA library on an identity and print materials, and collaboratively writing, designing, and printing a book that was exemplary of and about our F/LOS exercises and experiments. Each week we discussed how F/LOS’s ideas and technologies might serve the students’ (and the greater design communities) needs better than mainstream offerings.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Three lectures and workshops at MICA inspired the class’ origins. Loraine Furter and Eric Schrijver, members of a collective known as “Open Source Publishing,” ran two workshops: one using public domain resources in one’s design practice, and one customizing open source fonts. David Crossland of Google Fonts visited MICA and demoed new open source variable typefaces that Google and Type Network , collaborated on. Ending his lecture, Crossland explained how he ended up working at Google Fonts in the first place: being a lover and supporter of F/LOS. With Furter and Schrijver’s examples for how design practice might embrace F/LOS, and through casual conversation with Crossland about his libre font and software background, F/LOS ideals and tools felt like good exploratory territory for a graphic design course.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Speculative Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                23rd June 2021 at 10:59pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Speculative Everything

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                25th June 2021 at 1:04am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Spontaneity and Utopia

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                13th August 2021 at 2:44pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Spontaneous Lamps

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                6th August 2021 at 4:14pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ongoing exploration of building lamps with found and/or ephemeral materials

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How in the moment do you solve a challenge of "needing light"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How also might the materials used for the temporary lamp be unmodified; go back to being those same raw materials again when the lamp's need is over?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Srikumar Rao

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                22nd July 2021 at 11:25pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Executive, educator, writer and life coach Srikumar S. Rao asks, "Are you ready to succeed?" – and in his famous course "Creativity and Personal Mastery," he teaches his students how to do so.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Invest in the Process

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                SSS: Cradle To Cradle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                27th August 2021 at 11:27pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                An Idea: Signs Signaling Sustainability Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The cradle to cradle books are signs signaling sustainability. C2C is a "technical" nutrient — the entire book is made to be taken back into a production process — the pages are plastic, the ink reclaimable. The Upcycle is instead a biological nutrient, made to decompose and return to the cycles of nature. Paper, ink, binding, is all made to biodegrade… This fully signals the ideology of Cradle to Cradle. (Michael Braungart and William McDonough (with the design Paul Sahre))

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 11:31pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  designer Grafting People Doing People Things professor SAIC Semiotics
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Professor, Designer, Painter. In Chicago. Teaches at SAIC
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Vas: An Opera in Flatland
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Originator of Grafting ideas I have... met him in grad school, have occasionally talked to him since then

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Stewart Brand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  15th June 2021 at 11:19am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  People Doing People Things

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2nd July 2021 at 12:43am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Stoicism: Useful for Sustainability?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1st July 2021 at 3:17pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Okay, if an important part of stoicism is recognizing life's limitations, does that help one understand or accept anything about sustainability and the ways that it is useful to participate with nature and Spaceship Earth's limitations?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Stratechery: Metaverses

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3rd August 2021 at 4:26pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:42pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    CAPE Writing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    There is a lot of working happening in the static site generation realm. I’ve played with a number of options: Jekyll, Ruhoh, Nanoc, and Wintersmith to name a few. A quick google search will yield literally 10’s if not 100’s of more options…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The gist is this: write up your content in Markdown and YAML, create a few templates, then compile those via Ruby, Python, Node.js, or similar, and you are left with a directory of static HTML, CSS, and JS files that are now your site. Easy. Painless. Done.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sort of.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Its a cool idea. So far however, they all seem fairly focused on making a blog easier to upkeep, not actually build a whole site. I’m frustrated in that outside of using only a single directory of date sorted files and a few root level pages, none of the generators I have played with tried do very well at correctly managing or compiling a whole site. Multiple directories, nested sub-directories, different kinds of “content-types,” any sort of semi-advanced information architecture quickly shows the weaknesses of all the tools I’ve tested.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I’m looking for something that does the compiling, AND can figure out my information architecture. I’m happy telling it basic stuff in some sort of metadata file — some sort of YAML file that structures how things nest or what different content types do — but I just need it to actually understand what I am telling it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    What my colleagues and I are onto these days is trying to take this idea and run with it… so maybe we’ll figure it out at some point ourselves. We have some custom solutions do what we want (http://www.rwdfoundation.org is running on a custom version of ruhoh that adds the additional nesting I was talking about more correctly), but turning it into something that will work for any site is still in the distance. I guess we will just see what the future brings.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sue Spaid

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    22nd June 2021 at 10:20am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    People Doing People Things Personal Friend

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Curator, Philosopher, collaborator.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6th July 2021 at 12:43am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We made BioDiesel, Websites, and other various eco-things

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Super Normal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    20th June 2021 at 2:32am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sustainability and Beauty

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    19th July 2021 at 2:59pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to our flourishing. A transubstantiation of our individual ideals in material medium.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness, pg. 100

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton provides some insights useful in trying to solve aesthetic quandaries around sustainability and formal beauty. Beautiful design embodies and sustains the values you hold dear.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Following Botton's thinking, sustainable designers should see the non-sustainable as the less-than beautiful, even the ugly. Only truly sustainable things — meaning objects and forms that inspire sustainable ideals — should count as beautiful. Beautiful things ARE sustainable things, and vice versa.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Burgeoning sustainabilitists wishing to de-clutter their lives may come across a piece by Bruce Sterling that echoes similar sentiments. Sterling outlines four criteria for sorting through the objects you own so as to decide what to keep and what to discard as a part of your new, sustainably designed life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Beautiful Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Sentimental Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Utilitarian Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. Everything else.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    If an object in your possession fits into the first three categories (beautiful, sentimental, or utilitarian things), then it is worth keeping. If it falls into "Everything Else" you must be rid of it. Sterling is interested in these categories from the point of view that sustainabilitists should have the right stuff — right meaning the best functioning, most meaningful, prettiest stuff. By virtue of being objects that you really need or want to have around just by being so lovely to look at, these things rise above just plain detritus to become more valuable, more sustainable objects (even if it just means you replace them less often).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    When Alain de Botton talks about beauty in design and architecture, I think his “beauty” encompasses all of Sterling's top 3 categories.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    But, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This starts to explain why “what does sustainable graphic design looks like?” is such a hard question to answer. It also explains why Sterling found the need to break his list of criteria four separate entities, and not just "beautiful things" and "everything else." To me, a nice hammer is functional, utilitarian, and beautiful. To you, it might just be functional. The paintings and drawings I find beautiful are what another might find ugly. The things I find sentimental are probably unique to me. Not everyone has the same idea of what should be sustained as not everyone thinks the same things are beautiful.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Is there really then no “correct” aesthetic choice?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sustainability is about activity

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    22nd July 2021 at 1:02am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Most designers are in the representation business, so their first response has been to design a poster about sustainability. But the transition to sustainability is not about messages, it’s about activity.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    John Thackara

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainability is essential because there are no other options

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      23rd August 2021 at 4:58pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainability, Design, and the Collective?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      31st August 2021 at 4:55pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Collective Action Not Individualism EssayADay

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainability is not about individualism; not about individual actions. It's about the collective. How can trust in our world and other people improve the contexts? Our communal success is just that – communal. So we need to think about our own success in ways that are more than purely individual.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      See JOMO p63 ¶2 l22, The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Okay, so this isn't individual action — it is collective action

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      How does a designer DO any of this — or rather how do I? What is a design success that is more than individual; I guess that means more than about the designer; more than just the design. The design is the inflection point? the design is the doorway to go from individual to collective solutions? the designer gives up caring about THEMselves in the relationship; its not about portfolio or "coolness" its about what people need.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      (There is an article on the creative independent about this!?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      How does design BUILD trust? We need to trust in each other, trust in our institutions, trust in the world. This needs to be REAL trust. True Trust? (what is trust!?) Design can easily build the IDEA of trust, present all the necessary signifiers for trust (I mean, this is the goal of branding in general right???) BUT we don't want just some superficial signifiers of trust we need ACTUAL trust.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I don't know what to do to do this. Designing with people not for them.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Does Design, When Everybody Designs fit in here?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainable Aesthetics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      25th June 2021 at 1:12am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainable Aesthetics should visualize good ethics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5th July 2021 at 12:57pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Prompt So Many Questions Sustainable Aesthetics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      What are good ethics? how does one visualize these things? what about an ideology is translateable into visuals?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainable Graphic Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      22nd July 2021 at 1:07am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Graphic Design that is somehow sustainable. Graphic Design in the service of the welfare of all life. Graphic Design that helps life to flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      In my perfect vision for the future, this is what regular, status quo, graphic design just becomes... so when you said Graphic Design you would mean things that specifically are Sustainable — not what we mean now, where the sustainable is an extra adjective and so implies that you must do more or do something different...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      If sustainable graphic design is design in service of what we want to sustain — how do you decide what's worth sustaining? (if we want to sustain the status quo, then that is what sustainable graphic design is — hmmm!?).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Designer Bruce Mau has a similar description for the goals of Massive Change: “Our project is the welfare of all life as a practical objective.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      So, this is what we'll use as our definition of Sustainable Graphic Design: sustainable graphic design is “graphic design in support of all life flourishing,” or, “graphic design for the welfare of all life.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainable Graphic Design Does Not Exist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Big Ideas Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainable design does not exist was at first pessimistic. Is design all just trash? does design create waste period, so nothing is sustainable? Anything we make is unmaking so much else; so all design is unsustainable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      But! Sustainable design does not exist came to signify an alternative; it didn't exist because it was ephemeral! because it reused existing objects in a new way! that it left no trace! that it was part of a vernacular process! suddenly this felt like a prompt for new works; new questions! A useful constraint for future work.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Where does this thinking lead us? We can think of all our designs as living within the context of nature, and we can think of how they might look or what they might be made of or what audience a design might be serving… Is there a clearer way to articulate what "Sustainable Graphic Design" is?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      sustainable graphic design is critical of existing social, cultural, technical, AND economic structures

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      30th September 2021 at 1:45am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Dunne & Raby are proponents of “Critical Design,” or design that “provides a critique of the prevailing situation through designs that embody alternative social, cultural, technical, or economic values.” Graphic design made for the welfare of all life is different than status quo design. So, sustainable graphic design is not just design that helps people and our planet, but design that is also critical of existing social, cultural, technical, AND economic structures (sort of all the options of the Dunne & Raby list).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainable Graphic Design is Different

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      All life flourishing is not the traditional goal of business, culture, and design. Sustainable Graphic Design defined this way is different than "regular" cultural production.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Throughout western art and design history new or “different” thinking and tools correlate with new or different aesthetic outcomes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sustainability brings with it all manner of new technologies, new social structures, new tools. Should Sustainable graphic design then carry with it additional new forms and aesthetics?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sustainable Graphic Design looks Ideological & Critical?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        30th September 2021 at 1:46am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.” With “the welfare of all life” as our world view, how does that shift what and how we graphic design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are proponents of “Critical Design,” design that “provides a critique of the prevailing situation through designs that embody alternative social, cultural, technical, or economic values.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sustainable graphic design is not just design that helps people and our planet, but design that is also critical of existing social, cultural, technical, AND economic structures; since many of these things are harming all life, not helping them to flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Svend Brinkmann

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1st July 2021 at 3:18pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Author, Philosopher, Dane.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 8:46pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Our current systems, such as mass consumption yielding mass waste, are out of date and faulty. It is pointless to waste energy attempting to resolve designs within these systems. The creation and exploitation of new, better systems will be the main directive for sustainable design.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        28th July 2021 at 2:44am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tattfoor Tan, SOS Steward

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        27th August 2021 at 11:26pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        An Idea: Signs Signaling Sustainability Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Enrolled in various courses and acquired certification for sustainable/green knowledge. To flaunt new found titles, created merit patches to be worn on gray coveralls during events and gardening sessions. <http://tattfoo.com/sos/SOSGreenStewardship.html> (Tattfoo Tan & S.O.S. Steward)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Tea Uglow

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            31st July 2021 at 2:29pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Tea Uglow > Doubt as a creative catalyst

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6th August 2021 at 3:43pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Tea Uglow's Talk at the 2017 AIGA Design Conference

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Teach what you most want to learn

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              14th July 2021 at 11:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2nd July 2021 at 12:56am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Essays Ideology Manifesto Principle Professorship

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Design requires artistic skill, technical prowess, and conceptual thinking. Design is a communication mediator, a research tool, and a collaborator in the creation of culture. My desires are to encourage students to explore these facets of design, and to investigate future possibilities for the discipline. The first day of class in every course begins with the statement that design can be used for intellectual inquiry and self-expression, not just executing a client’s wishes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Education is an active experience. Teachers and students are equal participants. I will help students find their formal and intellectual capabilities; but students must take responsibility for their personal growth. Given the constraints of an assignment, I ask students to respond as they see fit to provided prompts and exercises. Students are asked to use whatever interests they have in fleshing out their solutions. Students are provided with room to make up their own minds about what constitutes good, well-formed, successful design (provided they can explain their choices in sensical fashion). I help and guide how I am able.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                My students will become self-reliant thinkers and doers. I want my students at the forefront of the discussion around design’s future. I want my students providing aesthetic solutions for what tomorrow’s design looks like. I want my students to have practical, applicable knowledge and speculative, fantastical projects under their belts. I want my students to succeed in my classroom and to continue succeeding when they have left academia’s walls and entered “the world.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                My attempts to achieve the above include:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • maintaining an open dialogue, critiques, and discussion;
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • encouraging students to bring personal interests to assigned prompts;
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • delivering my point of view as a teacher, experimenter, and practicing designer;
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • finding alternative points of view to my own to include in lectures, discussions, etc;
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • promoting individual judgments of taste and quality (students should find their own point of view, not just regurgitate mine or other peers’, teachers’, colleagues’, or the internet’s);
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • asking students to remain skeptical (but not to be cynical — constantly questioning existing solutions so we may explore and offer alternatives to how things are);
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • and, embracing the speculative so as to create more room for discussion.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The following are a series of aphorisms to further explain my design teaching thoughts.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Successful teaching culminates with students applying teachings from the classroom to their own lives, not just assigned projects. My goal is for students to leave my classroom (and their schooling as a whole) with a better understanding of the world around them and a consideration for how design and they themselves fit into that world.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Related Notes: * Ten Principles for Good Design * Biomimicry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Technology & Tools

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                25th June 2021 at 1:15am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Computers and software are just tools. Contemporary technological tools are no different than an x-acto knife: no one tool is usable for everything; and, tools take practice and thoughtfulness to be used well. We have reached a quantity and Complexity of available tools where no single person can master all instruments. Designers should pick tools that offer the most future possibilities, not just the best short term outcomes. This is an important part of teaching in the “new media” sphere: not mastering all options, but sussing out what is important long term. A good teacher focuses on design concepts that are applicable to a wide range of tools and processes, not just to what the newest technological trend is. Learning technology (learning tools generally) should be seen as a way to illustrate and enhance design fundamentals, not just a merit badge to be earned.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TED

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 2:08pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                T: Technology, E: Entertainment, D: Design.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A series of lectures, explainers, and general presentations trying to provide novel thinking and solutions to our big problems.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ten Principles for Good Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 11:27pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Manifesto Modernism Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ten principles for good design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him: “An impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • His answer is expressed in his ten principles for good design.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Principles

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Good Design Is Innovative
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Good Design Makes a Product Useful
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Good Design Is Aesthetic
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Good Design Makes A Product Understandable
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. Good Design Is Unobtrusive
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                6. Good Design Is Honest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                7. Good Design Is Long-lasting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                8. Good Design Is Thorough Down to the Last Detail
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9. Good Design Is Environmentally Friendly
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                10. Good Design Is as Little Design as Possible

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Read them in more detail on Vitsœ’s site > https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ten-part Metaverse Primer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3rd August 2021 at 3:51pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The 3Rs

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5th July 2021 at 1:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The advantages of design in the 21st century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                10th August 2021 at 11:22am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Architecture of Happiness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 11:14pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                An amazing book.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Art of Life

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1st July 2021 at 3:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Audre Lorde Questionnaire to Oneself

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9th August 2021 at 2:05pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. What are the words you do not have yet? [Or, “for what do you not have words, yet?”]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. What do you need to say? [List as many things as necessary]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. “What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?” [List as many as necessary today. Then write a new list tomorrow. And the day after.]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. If we have been “socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition”, ask yourself: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?”† [So, answer this today. And every day.]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Adapted from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” collected in The Cancer Journals.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • † This question is borrowed from Naomi Wolf’s Commencement address at Scripp’s College, “A Woman’s Place.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This resource was created by Divya Victor for students of her Creative Writing courses at Nanyang Technological University in January 2016. It has since been misappropriated by individuals and organizations, and it has also been responsibly used by a variety of non-profit and educational organizations. If you choose to use this resource in your classroom, please credit the author. Any use of this resource, in part or whole, by non-educational organizations requires written permission from the author.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                victordi@msu.edu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                http://www.divyavictor.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                reference by Additional Questionnaires to Oneself and https://aminatou.substack.com/p/homework-the-audre-lorde-questionnaire and https://nadiacolburn.com/the-transformation-of-silence-and-language-into-action/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                the best way to solve complex problems is with complex thinking

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                21st July 2021 at 12:50pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Oh! and the best way to solve complex problems is with complex thinking — often that means many people in collaborationthere is no way you can know enough, be expert in enough things anymore … You need others to come by & say: why did you do x? didn't you think of y?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Bits That Make Up A Design Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A place to collect the bits and pieces that when properly connected might illustrate my philosophy of design …

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  8th July 2021 at 4:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A new resource on the fundamentals of carbon dioxide removal and its role in addressing the climate crisis

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The case for stubborn optimism on climate change

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 1:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "This decade is a moment of choice unlike any we have ever lived," says Christiana Figueres, the architect of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement. The daughter of Costa Rica's beloved President José Figueres Ferrer, she shares how her father's unwillingness to lose the country he loved taught her how stubborn optimism can catalyze action and change. With an unshakeable determination to fight for the generations that will come after us, Figueres describes what stubborn optimism is (and isn't) – and urges everyone to envision and work for the future they want for humanity.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Christiana Figueres, a TED talk

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Cathedral and the Bazaar

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    20th July 2021 at 11:28pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Amazing set of essays on how distributed work around the Linux kernel worked... Describes a methodology not unlike the Vernacular processes in How Buildings Learn. Only, due to being code and distributed across the internet, works so much faster and fluidly.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Curious Paradox

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    28th July 2021 at 12:10am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Designer as Sustainabilitist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6th July 2021 at 12:40am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In the vein of “Design as Author”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Designer as Sustainabilitist (A Table of Contents)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Outline/TOC for a zine/short book... The Designer as Sustainabilitist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Towards and understanding of sustainability as required by the design profession?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. The Sustainabilitist Manifesto
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. The Sustainabilitist Principles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Postulates of Sustainable Design ??
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. What is a Sustainabilitist?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. What does sustainable Graphic Design look like?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6. Explain the principles? illustrate what has been presented? essays or writings or readings from the field?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    7. Learning more about > define key terms/Ideas like Everything Is Connected?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    8. Understanding Sustainability
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    9. Key Thinkers? Key Texts? Key Differences in Understanding
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    10. How to create sustainability?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    11. An exercise in sustainability > what is the most sustainable design?
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Dezeen guide to carbon

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This essential guide to carbon debunks all the jargon around the element. It explains what it is, describes how it contributes to climate change and lays out ways of tackling the problem.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The single most important thing for avoiding a climate disaster is cutting carbon pollution from the current 51 billion tons per year to zero, says philanthropist and technologist Bill Gates. Introducing the concept of the "green premium" – the higher price of zero-emission products like electric cars, artificial meat or sustainable aviation fuel – Gates identifies the breakthroughs and investments we need to reduce the cost of clean tech, decarbonize the economy and create a pathway to a clean and prosperous future for all.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TED conversation with Bill Gates and Bruno Giussani

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The key to doing something about sustainability is that you first have to say what you want to sustain.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Libre Designer (020200727)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          27th August 2021 at 11:59pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          F/LOS Lecture The Libre Designer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          (or; why designer's don't f/los)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          live on youtube 202007271900: <https://youtu.be/fLfeWtOpFto>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          MICAGD Summer Camp; LIBRE GRAPHICS with Kristian Bjornard

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          20200724 Update: My plan to use the F/LOS video conferencing platform JitSi Meet is not quite working out, so we will be switcing to a zoom call!? And just a heads up incase it wasn't clear, this is less a "workshop" or "demo" and more of a lecture/walkthrough w/ Q&A and discussion.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A general outline for things I'll be trying to talk about and touch upon can be found on GitHub: <https://github.com/bjornmeansbear/lectureScripts/blob/master/theLibreDesigner.md>. And I'll also be trying to maintain an up to date document as things transpire during our time together Monday evening on EtherPad; this will be a way other than just zoom chat that links can be shared and questions can be co-authored or expanded upon in real time: <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/thelibredesigner>.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Optional Homework: If you are totally new to the ideas of Free/Libre and Open Source, here is a great quick intro as to "what is open source" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8fHgx9mE5U&list=TLPQMjMwNzIwMjDvdkWAxlxtzw&index=2> . You could look into the Free Software Foundation's definition of free software: <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So, I look forward to seeing you all on Monday on Zoom [zoom link?]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Tired of giving over all your money, attention, and energy to our Neo-liberal capitalist oligarchs? While to get paid you still might have to design for them; you do not have to use the software and computers made by them! Come on a tour of wild world of Free/Libre and Open Source Software available for Graphic Designing. (Inkscape, ImageMagick, Nodebox, Blender, etc.). There will be time for Q&A.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Requirements: ~A Chromium (like Chrome) based browser; access to Jitsi.org;~ Now on Zoom, but still, you need the desire to liberate culture.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          July 27, 7–9pm

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          For the 20200727 MICA GD Summer Camp version I'll be live streaming on youtube & there will be a live, dynamic document/chat up on etherpad: <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/thelibredesigner>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Twitch: <https://www.twitch.tv/libredesigner>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The realm of Free/Libre Open Source (F/LOS) offers deisgners not only a pragmatic approach reviving how sociocultural artifacts have historically been created, but also a critical approach that, through utilizing ideologically based software and tools (and having far more easy of access to software and tools) intentionally positions itself as antidote to status-quo capitalism. A designer will find more ways to make; less obstructions to their creative vision; and the ability to learn from and to give back to a community.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I am writing this as a sort of lecture/essay – but I will first be giving this as a series of live streams on Twitch (I hope); then as a "virtual workshop;" then perhaps as a presentation at a small DrupalCon...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Anyway, the goal here is to point out simple to complex opportunities for a designer to start to integrate the practice and ideology of open source into their practice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Welcome.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          My name is Kristian Bjornard. I teach a variety of Graphic Design classes at the Maryland Institute College of art – mainly open studios for the seniors where they work on their capstone design projects, and then some web and motion and interactivity related courses for sophmores and juniors, and the occasional elective dealin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Some Brief Background

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I first got into Free/Libre Open Source back in 2006. My first real, intentional entry into this world was using Drupal, a then novel content management system, to build websites. It seemed too good to be true – tons of people all over the world collaborating together to make a family of modules for doing all kinds of complex web things! Here was this amazing thing and it was free to download and free to use for whatever and however I chose? At the time I could never do too much more than occasionally participate in discussions around theming... but! Woah!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I ended up druapaling for a while... and then when I started getting much more into thinking about how design might be more sustainable, I was thikning about vernacular buildings[How buildings learn by Stewart Brand] and then how open source software like drupal evolved over time and adapted much like vernacular biuldings... and bam! I thought, oh, maybe something about f/los was more sustainable? I was also thinking that something like a typeface was important to make more accessible to more people for the purposes of sustainablity – ... and again, Libre type accomplished this...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The last sort of other path that helped lead me to "Libre designing" was being a publication designer and having a lot of projects with little to no art budget. So, let's say you're told you have basically $0 extra dollars for stock photos or hiring your own photographer, what are you going to do? Well, its another space I found – public domain and creative commons licensed images out among the piles of the internet... We'll get directly into this soon, but I just wanted to mention that my actual deisgn practice, mitigating the constraints of low budget projects, aslo accidentally led me to the ideas in the presentation...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So I've dabbled off and on with libre fonts, OS tools like Drupal, and then the occasional creative commons and public domain licesnsed imagery, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          This really got to be part of my practice when I ran a class about "Open Source Design" in 2018? (foot note class? footnote AIGA conference? footnote essay about the class?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          (anything else????)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Now, onto the libre designing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          An Introduction

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          For this array of ideas, I'm first going to introduce you to F/LOS if you haven't really had much of an introduction to it in the past. Then I'll try to outline from simple to complex how a designer "liberates" their practice. At the end, and throughout, I'll point out reasons that perhaps this isn't more mainstream incase you're not already thinking that...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Some Content Warnings:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - I will be derogatory towards neoliberalism
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - I will probably mention Marx, Communism, Henry George, Mutual Aid, Peter Kroptopkin, and other socialist, anarchist and libertarian thinkers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - I will probably bring up issues of classism, structural racism, and sexism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Hopefully you know what you're here for!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The foundations to the Free/Libre Open Source arena has several interesting connections to the greater domain of Graphic Design. As such, I continue to be surprised how little our discipline seems to know about and partake in this world – outside of web design.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I will talk too long about the foundations for F/LOS if I get into it, so I'll skip over some backstory for now – but! the start of free/libre open source is partially related to graphic deisgning.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          There is a great anecdote about Donald Knuth and being so offended by the bad typesetting of his computer programming books that he decides to invent a typesetting/layout program and magical font to draw all other fonts; this becomes TeX and Metafont, super great ideas that you can still use today ... And then the origins of freesoftware and GNU are that Richard Stallman is so upset that Xerox won't share the firmware code for a printer that isn't working right, he flies into an ideological, libertarian rage, quits his job, and vows never to make or use non-free software...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If you want to investigate this all more; I highly recommend finding out more about Donald Knuth – he is just an amazing person – and Tex and MetaFont – or even trying to use TeX (MacTex, LaTex, ConTeXt or some other fork)... If you like HTML and CSS you'll probably like "designing" documents in TeX. > check out Overleaf <https://www.overleaf.com/>. There are some cool old videos of him showing people how to use computers in the 80s...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          You can also read all sorts of history and foundational information from, by, and about the Free Software foundation (<https://www.fsf.org/>) and GNU (<http://www.gnu.org/>)...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Oh, And then there is "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond, which does a good job outlining how Linus Torvalds created his world of distributed hackers to rapidly build and improve upon the Linux Kernel as it evolved... This is also a foundational text for how "Free/Libre" became "Open Source"... And can be useful for thinking about how or why "Open Source" is so pervasive in web design...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          FYI: The history of intellectual property (at least in Europe/USA) is largely one of those in power trying to control things; not the less powerful trying being protected. (1556 establishment of the Stationers’ Company’s monopoly in England was largely intended to help limit the Protestant Reformation movement's power. By putting the entire printing industry in the control of this company, the government and church could prevent the dissemination of ideas. (from <https://lawshelf.com/coursewarecontentview/history-and-sources-of-intellectual-property-law/>))

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Some examples to get things framed correctly right away?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - What sorts of common technolgy? what kinds of more general examples can I give them? - 1974 & 1979 AIGA/USDOT Pictograms/Symbol Signs (<https://www.aiga.org/symbol-signs/> & <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_pictograms> & <https://thenounproject.com/aiga-icons/collection/symbol-signs/>) - The Idea of a RECIPE. - Any other tie ins with sustainability or anything else?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Libre Not Gratis / Free as in Freedom

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Okay, so we'll be talkinga about Free, Libre, Open Source – let's make sure we define F/LOS!.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What is Libre Graphics?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          When I say "Libre Graphics" I am linking to the Free/Libre part of Free/Libre Open Source.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          (this is where Stallman goes!?) Printer anecdote? His ideas of "freedom" > FSF/GNU

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          When "free" software st arted it was about the freedom to do with software as you pleased.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [stallman golden rule slide?]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          FSF 4 freedoms.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Free as in Freedom, not as in price! (Libre not Gratis) You can still charge money for F/LOS; the point is to not stop someone from doing what they want with a thing (like when you buy physical objects). The point is not to give everyting away and go broke and die destitute in the gutter. I'll try to point out as we go why this is useful.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So, what is the libre designer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I say "libre design" instead of "free design" for the same reason – we don't want people to think that this design shouldn't cost anything; that it should be free to have done or to use; but that it should be about increasing people's freedoms, increasing liberty; not locking someone into a software or design ecosystem. Not prohibiting someone from doing what they need to do or want to do with a design tool; with a design.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Basically I mean that the recipe for any design should be shared for anyone to use; and the software, tools, or equipment should be as shareable and attainable too (like you might still have to buy equipment; but ideally its "open" as well so that you can hack and customize and control physical and digital equipment the way you need to while executing the recipe the way you want as well).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I'm interested in this for a few reasons:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - from a sustainability angle, many of the status quos ideals and practices are not useful; endlessly upgrading computers and software; intentional obsolescence...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - If we are decentering, decolonzing, anti-racisting design; well then we can't use white supremacist computers, software, tools.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - Historically culture is created using processes F/LOS is often recreating
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - If you are speculating other futures, and you want to get away from the "possible" and into the probable, preferrable, or impossible, well, agian, why use the regular, everyday tools?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - I am bothered by the hegemonic sameness of so much design, is part of that because we are all using the same computers and programs?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The libre designer is a utopian device; a character as in any story; to show you another way, to be emblematic of other ideals. The libre designer stands for design tools and outputs that help return cultural production

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          There's so much to talk about :)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A note on licenses

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          There are so many... we can dive into this more at the end if anyone cares; but in general there are truely free/libre licenses like GPL, CC share alikes, Apache; and then there are permissive license, MIT being the most used/known one. Basically, the libre licenses say that if you want to use this, great, but whatever you use it in also has to be open and shared in the same way. the permissive licenses say you can use this, and all you have to do is try to make it clear that you used this in your program or code somehwere; you _do not_ have to share your code the way I've shared mine... One is viral; one is isn't...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So! how to get started as a Libre Designer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          We'll start from the most clear and concrete things and end with the big, abstract, blurry ways to liberate your designing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Liberated Imagery! Tragedy of the commons

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The easiest way to get started on this adventure is to change the photos, illustrations, icons, etc. that you might use in a project. This is easiest for several reasons:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. 1. You don't need to change OS or software – any "free" image works with any tools you are already using. Nothing to install; turn on; reconfigure...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. 2. You don't need to ask permission; you're probably already finding these things for projects and clients anyway...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. 3. You sometimes don't even have to look in new places; just change the way you search/look...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. 4. You also actually solve a bunch of potential copyright/contract issues by finding "free" imagery

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Okay! so what does F/LOS mean to imageS?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So what we're looking for when we are looking for F/LOS imagery is imagery that is somehow licensed for anyone to do with it as they want. This often takes the form of "public domain" or "creative commons" or sometimes the "free art" or "libre art" license.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Add some things from Copy This book here? or at least reference it? or say if you want to learn a lot more about copyright and how these ideas fit togeter with contract law for traditioanl practice ou might like this book?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - Public Domain
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - Creative Commons 0 (CC0)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - CC Share Alike (and its variants)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - GPL?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - Libre Art?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - MIT
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - UnLicense
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - Anything else? (what does undraw use?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Good places to get started finding this stuff...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Libre Fonts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Once you have liberated your imagery and graphics, the next level is your fonts. Almost everything will work still with your existing hardware and software, but it is a magnitude harder to find, download and install some of the F/LOS fonts compared to just images...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          There are some open source fonts already installed on the average computer; and adobe fonts brings in some of the google font library; so you can just turn a few on there to get started super easily

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          <https://fonts.adobe.com/foundries/google>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Google fonts is doing a lot of cool new stuff. They're hitting this variable font thing pretty hard, and part of that means that almost any newer typeface is being converted to a variable font. This also means that almost all the newer google fonts have the full 9 weights + italics, so getting a font from google fonts these days doesn't really mean its limited in glyphs, weights, quality, whatever

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          <https://fonts.google.com/>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Eli Heuer?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I dig velvetyne, who are french, and then this italian foundry, (TK), and the League of Moveable Type...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A cool aspect of these fonts then is also you can not only get the fonts to use on your machine(s), share them with your clients and printers and friends and colleagues witout worry... you can also for the most part find and download the acutal source files used to to make th fonts. Does the F/LOS typeface you like not have a certain character or weight? well download the UFOs and edit it! Do you want to make a custom typeface for a client as part of their identity? find the thing closest to your vision from the F/LOS world and tweak it!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Quality of Fonts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The universe of F/LOS fonts can sometimes feel limited... and can sometimes feel less-than in terms of quality. I would say that in general, while you might not end up with as many typographic nicities; real small caps, different styles of numbers, etc. this isn't always the case. Many of these F/LOS fonts are designed to serve populations, users, audiences, etc. historically not served. SIL for example, an organization who has done a lot for Libre Fonts (<https://software.sil.org/fonts/>) has many fonts with huge character sets so they could set their materials in as many languages as possible (they provide language tools to all manner of commnunites)...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Often over time F/LOS fonts evolve to have more features just like software, etc. Raleway for exmaple was launched w/ one thin weight by TLOMT (<https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/raleway>); but was forked and the incarnation that lives on google fonts has 9 weights, and italics, and even an extra display version, raleway dots. <https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway?query=raleway#standard-styles> & <https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway+Dots?query=raleway>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Font Management

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Font management is both easy and terrible with F/LOS offerings and on Linux in general. As far as applications for font management go, there's not a lot, and the one good-ish one upkept by a designery person is no longer maintained... So you're stuck manually putting things in the right places. The good part of that is that, well, using MacOS depending on what you're useing you can just use whatever font manager you're already using... Some of the F/LOS tools however, they just don't know to look for fonts anywhere except the main system folder... This is hard to add/delete fonts from if you're a regular computer user... but in Linux, there is pretty much only the sytem repo for fonts, so thus the bias/seemingly annoying "feature" (or "bug" depending on your view)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Now for someting completely different

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Programs!? How do you start switching your tools and programs and software!!??

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Your images and your typefaces are now liberated. Not its time for all your software. This is the biggest leap; the largest jump; the hardest mental chasm to bridge so far. For somethings its a no brainer; for others its a nightmare. Let's try to navigate a small amount of this more complicated territory. Think of this as a partial; an incoplete map; of a terrain...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Now, today is a good day to try and find and use some of this stuff – there have never been so many easy to install and decent to use graphics tools. For the most part, most of this stuff now has mac/windows installers now – this was a big problem in the past; running a program in an emulator or virtual machine; having to download/install from the command line...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          You could start with programs that only exist as F/LOS – things like Drawbot, OBS, Nodebox, Processing – there aren't adobe nor native mac programs that really do these generative design things, or are rad for video streaming/screen recording...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Once you start building up your library of F/LOS tools, to do cool things you wouldn't be able to do otherwise, you can graduate to starting to replace some of your proproietary software...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          An incomplete list of all the libre graphics software you might want to try.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          There are things like ImageMagick and GhostScript that are basically background applications – you can run them from the terminal and other programs actually rely on them to do key things. Imagemagick lets you manipulate images, pdfs, etc. from the command line... (here, let me turn this PDF into a folder of jpgs) Ghostscript is a terminal based PDF creating/editing tool!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If you only remember one thing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The key to all of this is to properly mentally frame this for yourself. Try to think of everything I show you or talk about today not as direct replacements for your regular processes or tools; but as reasonable alternatives – they might do things differently; but you'll be able to end up at the same final result: well designed graphic objects...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          File Formats

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If you've gotten this far, you might start to think about file formats – how can i still share or fix things if I for some reason don't have access to what I need?? file formats are way more universal; standard in the F/LOS world.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          For example, .SVG is a standard, open file format for web AND print. Illustrator can also read it. So can Sketch. So can Figma. SVG is really an XML document, so you can even read/edit SVGs with textedit or whatever coding IDE you like.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          This is true across the F/LOS ecosystem. Usually, whatever file formats are used are open; or if not, then they try to be some sort of plaintext (XML or other sort of text doc) to try and make readability even without the right tool, possible... Scribus documents are also really just XMl files, look you can see more or less what's happening here in VSCode; and I can even edit the file here, save it, and when I reopen it in Scribus my document will have a new page. Here's what happens when you try to open an illustrator file in VSCode...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Time for an Operating System Update

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So you think you want to try GNU/Linux?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If you have been able to ditch Adobe; if you see all this and say, hell yes, liberate me from my technocratic overlords; then you can probably try ditching Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. You should give GNU/Linux a try.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          And then besides figuring out what distro works for you there is the ecosystem of front ends too!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          This starts to make way more sense even then designing software – the way your computer looks, works, etc. – shouldn't a designer weild some control over how a tool works? how their main "studio" is setup – how it acts, behaves, interfaces??? You can actually desing your interfaces; design your own icons; pick whatever typefaces you want to display wherever you want – It's way more of a design dream!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          New (old) Machines

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Most of the GNU/Linux OS world is meant to run on MANY kinds of computers; from tiny internet of things chipsets to big mainframes and everything in between. That means that its a lot easier to get a basic install of GNU/Linux running on whatever you have laying around than MacOS or Windows... You also have sizeable control over what GUI you use; os you can preserve resources for running software or rendering 4D graphics over giving all your finder windows dropshadows and animated effects.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          An advantage of all this is that you might et more life out of an old machine; you might get more life out of an underpowered machine...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          You should be able to fix your computer if it breaks; you should be able to customize your computers if you desire; increasingly this is getting impossible – it was already hard with Apples, but now most manufacturers are heading this route, especially for laptops. Using older or more liberated computer workstations means you have many more options for customization;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I mean if you want to be hardcore...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          You can also look on FSF.org they link directly to fully liberated computer sellers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Time for (your) practice

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          So, you've changed image sources; you've changed fonts; you liberated your tools and your computer and OS... how to liberate your works?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          As you start down this path you will find and see so many more opportunities... (like jitsi meet instead of zoom)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Now, your software, and maybe even your hardware, are liberated. You can use images, fonts, and programs that may be bent to your whims and will and flight of fancy. Great. How do you do something with them now that embraces all the same ideals as a process for producing work and future works?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          How can you make your making liberated too?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          How to apply F/LOS to designing?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Why Share more

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - If we are open and share our designs, whatever, it is easier as a novice to learn how something is done; you can partake in freedom 1 – studying, etc. - Can we adapt to changes or different workflows more easily and quickly? - More collisions of ideas? - iterate design solutions instead of creating new ones all the time? - it's fun?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Version Control

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          To help share more; to make it clear

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What else? (braithwaite OS design vid)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If designers participate this way what does it look like? Garth Braithwaite: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djf8sLjtbzU>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Share your process just be more open about what you are doing (if you are able!?). Share what you are going through, success and failures – maybe it is more important to share your failures frankly. Mention who inspired you or that you built off of. Be more transparent about who your mentors, inspirations, etc. were. This builds community; shows the interconnected nature of work and ideas.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Share your Source Files If you can, share your files. I mean it is even better if you could always write a tutorial or documentation; but just sharing your files with libre licensing allows others to learn from how you've made things by just opening them up and poking around.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Whenever possible use text-editable Code (XML, HTML, JS, Python, plaintext, MD, Whatever) It is the easiest thing to work with on any system with any tools one desires. It is also easiest to version control. AND if you are designing for the web and you try to design with HTML/CSS you can easily preview it on the real systems that you're designing for.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Collaborate. Design is frequently not a "hey lets get together and make some stuff" discipline. Its often about being a singular design visionary; a design hero; and this is partially the fault of design history...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Donate!? If you make something things that don't end up being needed for a project, can you just donate them to the public domain? or with a CC license that allows sharing and remixing?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. Contribute Can you design for the community in some way? how can you offer design skills back to other open projects? if you like a libre font, can you make sure to contribute design work you've made with it as examples for the type designers? build a webpage for an open project that needs a website? mockup alternative interface ideas for a tool? share tempaltes for Scribus? or Inkscape? Just submit issues, or go through issues related to design stuff and then try to answer other people's questions?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Why don't designers F/LOS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - Won't get credit
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - Pride
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - Unreasonable Greed. I don't want to give this away cause it might make me money!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - don't want to be judged for how the sausage is made
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - file formats
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - tooling
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - fear of "design by committee"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • - lack of desire

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          It is not just that designers CAN open source; but the benefits are so good; we're foolish not to be more open. And there are some designers trying out these methods... but as an industry we're still just really tied to.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What's hard? What's Bad? What's not easy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          In general; this stuff isn't easy. It's hard to just set out and do all of this – even the imagery and fonts stuff because there is expectation that designer's use certain type from certain places; you might be asked specifically to go to certian photographers or certain stock photo sites or be given aready unfree things to work with. Choosing to abandon adobe and apple... well, you probably can't do that if you have any sort of normal design job... ????

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Conclusion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          In general; the main thing keeping us from this is the desire of the status quo not to change. Neoliberalism works best when we all do what it wants. "free markets" not "free software".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The goal of this isn't actually full F/LOS adoption. I mean, my libre designer character I like to play, that's their goal; but in my own actual work, it isn't always possible to abandon everything every one else is using and doing. Clients will need you sometimes to make a book in InDesign; you might need to work in AfterEffects to work on your team... Instead of taking the extreme view, think of this really as a way to do more; to have more tools; to have more ways of doing things; to be able to make every more formal experiments; to better tie formal choices

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          How might this help you remove bias? what other kinds of interfaces might you now see and experience? What other kinds of interfaces and systems and opinions will you run into???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Designers are supposed to be designing fabulous interfaces. But! almost all of us use the same software on the same computers and so have an incredibly limited range of ideas for what makes an interface; for what makes a good interface; for what makes an accesible interfaces...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Think about this: the way desktop publising works on a computer, it was designed by a handful of people in the 80s, specifically to be done on a tiny mac at the time...you know like 8 key people decided a direction and a bunch of semiotic symbols for how to do things, for what features and icons and whatever else exist in these places... How much has changed since then? how much the same are these programs and ecosystems? Can steve jobs, Warnock, and (Page maker dude)'s ideas and decisions they made leading up to 1984 still be the right ones in the present we find ourselves in? Maybe some of these other tools grasp that ???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          There are tools here that don't exist on a mac or windows machine; that's rad!


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          28th July 2021 at 1:03am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan, by Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Marshall McLuhan was the visionary theorist best known for coining the phrase "the medium is the message." Shortly before his death, together with his media scholar son Eric, McLuhan worked on a new literary/visual code — almost a cross between hieroglyphics and poetry — that he called "the tetrads." This was the ultimate theoretical framework for analyzing any new medium, a koan-like poetics that transcended traditional means of discourse. Now Eric McLuhan has recovered all the "lost" tetrads that he and his father developed, and accompanies them here with accessible explanations of how they function.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Maintainers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5th July 2021 at 1:15pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Maintainers, a global research network interested in the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world. Our members come from a variety of backgrounds, including engineers and business leaders, academic historians and social scientists, government and non-profit agencies, artists, activists, coders, and more.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Market Economy Story

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          15th June 2021 at 12:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it is just a story we have told ourselves and we are free to tell another, to reclaim the old one.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ― Braiding Sweetgrass

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Metaverse And Sustainability?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3rd August 2021 at 4:29pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          How does the idea of the metaverse work within a framework of sustainability? within the framework of the welfare of all life?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Metaverse has these seven qualities

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3rd August 2021 at 3:51pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Matthew Ball, who has written extensively about the concept, including a ten-part Metaverse Primer earlier this summer, defined the Metaverse in 2020 as having these seven qualities:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Be persistent – which is to say, it never “resets” or “pauses” or “ends”, it just continues indefinitely
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Be synchronous and live – even though pre-scheduled and self-contained events will happen, just as they do in “real life”, the Metaverse will be a living experience that exists consistently for everyone and in real-time
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Be without any cap to concurrent users, while also providing each user with an individual sense of “presence” – everyone can be a part of the Metaverse and participate in a specific event/place/activity together, at the same time and with individual agency
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Be a fully functioning economy – individuals and businesses will be able to create, own, invest, sell, and be rewarded for an incredibly wide range of “work” that produces “value” that is recognized by others
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Be an experience that spans both the digital and physical worlds, private and public networks/experiences, and open and closed platforms
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. Offer unprecedented interoperability of data, digital items/assets, content, and so on across each of these experiences – your “Counter-Strike” gun skin, for example, could also be used to decorate a gun in Fortnite, or be gifted to a friend on/through Facebook. Similarly, a car designed for Rocket League (or even for Porsche’s website) could be brought over to work in Roblox. Today, the digital world basically acts as though it were a mall where every store used its own currency, required proprietary ID cards, had proprietary units of measurement for things like shoes or calories, and different dress codes, etc.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7. Be populated by “content” and “experiences” created and operated by an incredibly wide range of contributors, some of whom are independent individuals, while others might be informally organized groups or commercially-focused enterprises

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3rd August 2021 at 3:52pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The most thrilling times in design history

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            22nd June 2021 at 10:56am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The most thrilling times in design history are the ones of the greatest change, when designers interpreted shifts in science, technology, behavior, and politics for the rest of us

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            - Alice Rawsthorn

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Nature And Aesthetics of Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5th August 2021 at 3:12pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              by David Pye

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A basic theory of design where none existed before. A healthy correction to critiques of the past century. Design is everywhere.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              It is not of the slightest use for us to ask 'what is good design?' until we can answer the question 'what is design?' (pg 11, ¶4, L4)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The main difference between art and design is that the designer has limits set upon their freedom of choice (pg 11, ¶5) – FUNCTION carries with it LIMITATIONS or CONSTRAINTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Function is a fantasy (pg 12, ¶1, L4); and thus so is FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              What function does this form serve???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Bottom of PG12:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • how do you determine what the thing you are designing has "got to do"?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • does the information you have gained govern the design and determine its form or merely guide it?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • what does purely functional mean?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Whenever humans design and make a useful thing they invariably expend a good deal of unnecessary and easily avoidable work on it which contributes nothing to its usefulness. (pg13, ¶2, L2) &! All useful devices have got to do a lot of other useless things which no one wants them to do (who wants a car to get hot, tires to wear out, etc.) (pg13, ¶3, L2)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              unconscious motive for doing so much useless work is that if cannot make things work properly we can at least make them look presentable (pg13, ¶4, L5)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                18th June 2021 at 12:55pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The coronavirus brought much of the world to a standstill, dropping carbon emissions by five percent. Al Gore says keeping those rates down is now up to us. In this illuminating interview, he discusses how the steadily declining cost of wind and solar energy will transform manufacturing, transportation and agriculture, offer a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels and nuclear energy and create millions of new jobs. Stay tuned for a lively debate about geoengineering and hear Gore's thoughts about how humanity can create a clean, prosperous future through a focused global effort and a generation of young people committed to change. (This virtual conversation, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson, was recorded June 23, 2020.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                With Al Gore, a TED talk

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  14th July 2021 at 11:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Random assortment of mostly free to use icons. I think it used to be better... This is a Resource, a Design Resource. It shares some philosophical ideas with F/LOS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Other Side

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6th July 2021 at 12:43am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Poster

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Done while at SundaysEnergy — we made climate change related posters, etc. as products to try and sell.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  21st July 2021 at 1:40am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Philosophy of Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  17th August 2021 at 6:10pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Book Source Tsundoku
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Preliminary Course

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  23rd August 2021 at 2:12pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The principal goal of GNU is to be free software

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 11:34pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The principal goal of GNU is to be free software. Even if GNU had no technical advantage over Unix, it would have a social advantage, allowing users to cooperate, and an ethical advantage, respecting the user's freedom.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Purpose of a Design Sprint is to get ANSWERS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  19th August 2021 at 10:08am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Workshop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  If we build this thing, will it work!?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The real teacher

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  14th July 2021 at 11:38pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The real teacher lets nothing else be learned other than learning.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Real Thing Leads to Agreement

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Revenge of the Intuitive

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Seven Sins of Green Washing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2nd September 2021 at 1:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In a 2010 study, TerraChoice investigated the claims of 4,744 “green" products carried in stores across the U.S. and Canada, finding that more than 95 percent of these products were guilty of at least one of what they call:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Hidden Trade-Off: Labeling a product as environmentally friendly based on a small set of attributes (i.e., made of recycled content) when other attributes not addressed (i.e., energy use of manufacturing, gas emissions, etc.) might make a bigger impact on the eco-friendliness of a product as a whole.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. No Proof: Making an environmental claim without providing easily accessible evidence on either the label or the product website (i.e., a light bulb is touted as energy efficient with no supporting data).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Vagueness: Using terms that are too broad or poorly defined to be properly understood (i.e., an “all-natural" cleaner may still contain harmful ingredients that are naturally occurring).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. Irrelevance: Stating something that is technically true but not a distinguishing factor when looking for eco-friendly products (i.e., advertised as “CFC-Free"—but since CFCs are banned by law this is unremarkable).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Lesser of Two Evils: Claiming to be greener than other products in its category when the category as a whole may be environmentally unfriendly (i.e., an organic cigarette may be greener, but, you know, it's still a cigarette).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6. Fibbing: Advertising something that just isn't true (i.e., claims to be Energy Star Certified, but isn't).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    7. Worshiping False Labels: Implying that a product has a third-party endorsement or certification that doesn't actually exist, often through the use of fake certification labels.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    As the TerraChoice study highlights, greenwashing is rampant, which makes it difficult to know who to trust. To play it safe, make sure that your go-to sources for information and shopping are investigating the claims of each product they sell in their stores.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Sustainabilitist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 10:51pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Character Educational Model Ideology Performance

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Sustainabilitist arose from a prompt I asked myself: “What does sustainable Graphic Design look like?” From that initial question, many investigations and subsequent questions, paths, failures, and successes were had.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Sustainabilitist Manifesto

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 8:44pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Manifesto Principle The Sustainabilitist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Environmentalism’s goal was environmental sustainability.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Post-environmentalism’s goal must be true sustainability.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I propose a new term for the followers of Post-environmentalism: Sustainabilitists.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We sustainabilitists shall take over where the environmentalists leave off, moving sustainability from the realm of the environment into all realms.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The following Principles will help move our ideas and actions into the region of the truly sustainable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We sustainabilitists must allow our designs, strategies and methodologies to evolve and adapt to new ideas.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In keeping within its own principles, this Manifesto and its concepts will be in a constant state of Flux.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Principles:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Keep an open mind and do not blindly follow the principles. Don't worry about “sameness” or “correctness.” Solutions will be different in each scenario and situation. This is not worse or wrong.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Originally written in 2009. Based on some work I was doing for my MFA thesis. An extension of the piece "The Sustainabilitist Principles"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Sustainabilitist Principles

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Sustainabilitist Principles is a modular manifesto; a collection of the ways of thinking to sustainably design as I considered them in 2009. The goal: create an object whose form embodied the principles it conveyed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Sustainabilitist Principles started out as the books on my desk. Where did "sustainable designing" lay within them… I mapped connections between ideas… wrote down repeating ideas… pondered interconnections over time and space of similar principles… how could I clarify access to these ideas for the next designer?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The final output of this direction brought necessary pieces together in an intentional, ephemeral form for an exhibition. We don't need another book or poster series to explain these principles: the objects themselves could do it if put together correctly!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The books were my actual books. The screen printed definitions were printed on the front matter of found paperback novels. The interconnecting embroidery floss was used in the longest possible pieces to maximize reuse of the thread afterward.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This was my first truly successful piece of "sustainable graphic design." It was also my last "answer" to a question in grad school: "What does sustainable Graphic Design look like?"

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The sustainabilitist principles is an inflection point.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    19th July 2021 at 2:47pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    see The Sustainabilitist Principles

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The was work and thinking I did BEFORE TSP and then there is work and thinking I have done AFTER TSP... it is sort of a transition project between old and new. ???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The main thing was that it provided an example of Sustainable Graphic Design Does Not Exist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The time you have wasted for your rose

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    31st July 2021 at 2:20pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 1:58pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      By Edwin Datschefski

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This is a book... but it is also an explanation on Edwin's website: http://www.biothinking.com/btintro.htm

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Tagged with The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9th August 2021 at 5:15pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Triple Bottom Line

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      19th July 2021 at 2:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The consideration of Economic Sustainability, Social Sustainability, AND Environmental Sustainability in one's business dealings

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates "more options" with "greater freedom."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      14th July 2021 at 11:32pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The US is back in the Paris Agreement. What Next?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 1:01pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      part of the new TED countdown: https://countdown.ted.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      On his first day as president, Joe Biden signed a letter of acceptance that set in motion the 30-day process for the United States to re-join the Paris Agreement on climate. On the day the US returns to the accord, John Kerry, the US Special Envoy for Climate, sits down with Nobel Laureate Al Gore to discuss the make-or-break decade ahead of us. Listen as Kerry lays out how the US fits into the global plan to get to net-zero emissions, explains why the COP26 UN climate conference could be humanity's "last best hope" to build international momentum and explores the role of business and youth activists in promoting environmental justice. (This interview features an introduction from Christiana Figueres, the principal architect of the Paris Agreement.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      with Al Gore, John Kerry, and Christiana Figueres

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The very idea of “the best” often leads to despair

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      29th August 2021 at 11:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      JOMO note Quote The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The visual conventions of modernism are not timeless truths

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      6th July 2021 at 12:12am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Castles Made of Sand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      the visual conventions of modernism were not timeless truths, but instead, the results of a visual response to social, economic, and technological change, and that we were facing a similar situation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      the welfare of all life

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Big Ideas

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The ultimate goal: design for the welfare of all life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      When I say "true sustainability" this is what I mean – that all humans and other life should flourish – aka, we need to be concerned for the welfare of ALL life, not just human life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The year 2025

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12th August 2021 at 2:06pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Big Ideas

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Make my house fully electric — get off of Natural Gas. Get to Net Zero somehow.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Therapy = self-awareness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9th August 2021 at 5:23pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Part of any therapy, whether it be individual, couple, or family, is building self-awareness. With this comes the uncomfortableness of dealing with emotions you’d just rather not feel. Things like sadness, anger, guilt, and hurt. Things that make you feel vulnerable. I can say this from my own experience with therapy: Lean into the discomfort. Because when you come out the other side you’ve learned more about yourself, more about how you affect others, more about what works for you and what doesn’t, and more about the joy you can have. Be gentle with yourself, though. Handle what you can at the times you can. Take it slowly.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      from https://counselingcreatives.com/find-a-therapist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      There is no greater good than the greater good

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      13th August 2021 at 3:13pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government program

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        6th August 2021 at 3:43pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        F/LOS Lecture Mantra

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        These Gestures are Undoubtedly Utopian (020210209)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2nd November 2021 at 10:15am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Lecture Nebraska These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Outline

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Hello
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Quick "this is me?"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Utopian Gestures
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • quick background on the talk?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • SIP
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • SundaysEnergy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • GradSchool
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • a couple experiemnts
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Sustainabilitist Manifesto
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Design-a-Days?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • vernacular! Systems!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Green Acres
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • and how it led to Ecovention!?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Farming w/ Wife?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • F/LOSD
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • again, vernacular connection?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Spontaneous Lamps
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Yard projects?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Anything else?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • The End!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Ideas from 202103052254

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I have been going through a lot of old work, old writing, old lectures, just all of my past “work.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • What ties this work together?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Why make this stuff?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • I don't really do so much Question answering as question creating? Each question I pose myself usually results in more questions; yes perhaps I have learned something, gotten to some new place conceptually, intellectually, physically... but there are always more things to ask, more nodes to connect, more places of overlap and connection to find.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Design is often referred to as "problem solving" – but I tend to think of my practice more as "problem finding" or "problem inventing"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • What is a sustainabilitist?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • what is an open-sourcerer?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • What is the Libre Designer?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • What makes this utopian?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • What am I actually good at?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Quite a Utopian Gesture!?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • What else are you interested in besides designing?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Who should I talk to next?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What kind of useful revisionist history can I tell about all these pieces that a) make a useful connection between all of my work, and b) create some new understanding...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Is one of the connections my own understanding, my interest in seeing how things are connected, seeing where I can better learn? Is the connection an exploration of various technologies? is the connection an ever growing desire to access more tools?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • In the beginning, Culture was free!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Share Ideas!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • The Commons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • The Intellectual Commons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • The Physical Commons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Typography and Open Source
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • UN Sustainable Development Goals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Help eachother evolve, iterate, and make stuff
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • What gestures have I made lately that are utopian?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian (020210317)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        28th August 2021 at 12:01am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Lecture Nebraska These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian Attempt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I have spent a lot of time lately looking through old works, reading through old essays and lectures... just trying to analyze what I've done; go back to existing presentations and lectures...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I've been struck by a couple of things.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. My work is all over the place. Different aesthetics, different mediums, different scales... 2. I have a hard time staying focused on one thing 3. I do a lot of repetitive processes 4. While materials, forms, etc. might sometimes change, there seem to be some real commonalities...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Okay, so I am gonna go through a couple of my favorite works from the last twenty years. I'll try to point out quickly what was good about them, how they came to be, why they are the way they are...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This will be part revisionist history, part utopian speculation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Cellular Distortions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. The Sustainabilitist Principles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Design a Days 2010
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Green Acres / Eco Ventions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Free/Libre Design Explorations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. Situationist Lamps
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7. A Permaculture Garden
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          8. Low Carbon Urban Homestead

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Does any of this matter?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What does design do? and what does it mean?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sustainability as flourishing. What does this mean for designing? we strive for a context in which all life can flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Design and the welfare of all life. How does this change how design is practiced and defined?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. BauErden (Build Earth)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Earthstronauts:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The ultimate aim of design must be restoring ​harmony in the carbon cycle. No longer can we produce ​meaningless prints, tchotchkes, devices, apps, objects, and software. ​ No design shall be created without first asking “does this need to exist?” — “does this drawn down carbon from the atmosphere?” — “does this re-balance natural systems?”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        We need the conscious​, cooperative effort of all designers, politicians, craftspeople, scientists, farmers, parents, small business owners, etc. A new design education must aid in this federated endeavore. How might a new pedagogical approaches focus on the liminal; designers as connectors? For everything is connected.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Designers must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of “climate” as a holistic entity AND in its separate, interconnected parts (climate(s): natural, social, technical, etc.? _the_ planetary climate? the earth? nature? the universe?). Only then will our designing be imbued with the spirit it has lost as mere servant of capitalism.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Old styles and models for designing​ are not capable of producing the required unity. Abandon them. New styles, new processses, new ways of working, new ways of making, and new ways of seeing are required.​

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        We must merge design with the workshop, the science lab, the forest, the internet, the ocean depths, the lecture hall, the meadow, the studio, and the public square. Designers shall become the nexus between new interests and needs. Our client is our climate. Our goals: drawing down carbon, the welfare of all life, and the restoration of spaceship earth.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. What was that?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        BauErden” is meant to replicate the concepts from the original Bauhaus manifesto, but with a climate-centered lens, instead of architecture building and craft as a focus...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        bauhaus course diagram?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ulm school course diagram?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        hypotehtical BauErdern course diagram?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. The Sustainabilitist Principles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Waste = Food
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Sustainable Design Does Not Exist
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Libre!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Should this whole thing be signs signalling sustainability > the libre actions are one aspect of this? reuse is one aspect of this? This is the unifying feature; all these things can be shown to do something from my "Sustainabilitst Principles" project from grad school???

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What does sustainable graphic design look like?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Sustainable? FLOSS?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        How does one move towards a more sustainable graphic design practice?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        - Part of my solutions are transitioning clients, materials, etc. towards “better” options; - what "better" means is relative of course, but in general lower energy, less materials, safer materials, etc. - my GNU/Linux (F/LOS genereally) experiments are another; - Reusing old design ideas another. (Design-a-Days; Kit-of-Parts)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Now, one might ask if spending hundreds of hours trying to relearn a workflow and tooling in GNU/Linux is sustainable (the general open sourcery is SOOOO much work to transition too)? But! I am more than capable of reusing much older computers in this realm, so there is a possiblitiy for not having to get NEW computers anymore?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The GNU ecosystem is fully into reusing old ideas — just reusing ideas period.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The ecosystem for libre tools is more like a natural ecosystem: evolution; variations due to minor differences of philosophy or habit or desire; a plurality of solutions… If the way our tools are built and evolve is more like natural cycles/processes; does that allow those tools to fit into our lives, society, and culture in more "natural" ways? (natural meaning finding harmony with nature; being more "a part" of nature rather than "apart" from nature).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Do the ideals of F/LOSS align with the ideals of sustainability?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Does "all humans and other life should flourish" fit into F/LOSS as an ideal?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        - go into flourishing? - bruce mau's design for the welfare of all life - get some blurbs from my Towards Sust Aesthetics essay?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Where and how do my interests in Design serving a flourishing/wellfare of all life agenda and my interests in F/LOSS overlap; how are they additive; how do they serve each other. Are they negative or at odds with each other?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        - Our current capitalist constructs DO NOT improve the wellfare of all life; - the origins of F/LOSS are anti-capitalist — or at least anti valuing making a buck over the good of your neighbor — so, if you have to use software, F/LOSS is more likely to AID you in helping all life flourish than proprietary/non-free softwares. (Is this provable? or measurable?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Waste = Food

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Free software can allow for more creative waste to become creative food. And, WASTE = FOOD is a sustainable ideal. So, does that make free software more sustainable?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Waste = Food; what other ways can I find that this is true for creative kinds of waste? As I mentioned before I think that in some ways F/LOSS improves upon this equation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Is this also how vernacular patterns/building come into the picture — are free/libre open models the new vernacular (is that how I make my designing today more like the way say a Cape Cod house comes together?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Waste = Food is a great idea to apply to more things than just the natural world. Here's a great prompt: the earth's major nutrients are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, & nitrogen ... what are graphic design's major nutrients? (and! how can they be cycled and recycled into new graphic design indefinitely?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Dunne and Raby propose that design should explore activities and outcomes that question and challenge status quo industrial agendas—however! for the most part the designers doing this are still using status quo tools! Sustainability (at least the flourishing variety I am interested in) is NOT the current status quo; so if I am challenging the assumptions of contemporary design and capitalist consumerism, then I need non-capitalist consumerist tools to do that with—enter F/LOSS.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sustainable Graphic Design is a mindset, not a checklist of "the right" materials

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        - If you have the right mindset, but still use the wrong materials, does it matter? - If one uses better materials, but for the status quo aims, does it matter? - In what ways can I change how I work and live to yield immediate results?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Sustainable graphic design does not exist.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sustainable graphic design does not exist. that might mean "there is no such graphic design that can count as sustainable — its all wasteful garbage that does nothing good" — or — sustainable graphic design doesn't exist meaning that it comes together to serve a communication purpose; deliver a semiotic message; and then redistributes back to whatever energy and matter it was before.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The point is not that literally you can't make it (though that is sort of what I was thinking at first), but that a graphic designed thing that is sustainable comes together to communicate the message it needs to communicate; and then can dematerialize back to its initial parts once the communicative need is over. How does "signs on a substrate" translate to "pieces coming together for a determinate amount of time and then returning to their constituent pieces"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sustainability is about knowing what you want to sustain. Libre tools are about a person's freedom to do what they want. If I don't want to sustain our moderno-techno-capitalism, then I should probably use libre tools while creating alternatives... what do I want to sustain though? It is easy to say what I don't want to sustain; less clear to say what I do want to.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        If sustainable designers don't make design; what do we make? who do I need my next clients to be? If I am all in on the sustaino-libre stuff; what are the kinds of things I must investigate? And, how does being a "graphic designer" play into all this when/if/as my projects become more about software development; more about building bicycles; more about actions or interventions; more about proposals and plans?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I know I like to say how the sustainabilitist principles project exemplifies "sustainable design does not exist" since the objects came together to be a sculpture for an exhibition and then went back to being the objects afterward — but how does that work for other kinds of projects? can I work with clients and still pitch that kind of solution? (do I have examples????)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Should sustainable design look intentionally different to tell everyone that its not the same? If the paradigm must shift; then the styles should probably shift as well to be clear that they are in all ways different? By just using different tools and typefaces and image sources do you do this? does it need to be more extreme than that?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What is perennial graphic design that is restorative to culture — that protects and builds cultural health? (the same way that prairie grasses build and protect the soil health of the plains?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What does "graphic designing" do to heal and restore the world? how can making anew unmake all the old?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What are local and reusable materials for visual design? making my own paper? creating sheets of remade plastic "paper"? digging and making my own clay to make tablets out of? firing pages that way? what do I produce with those things? plates to print from? stamps? seals? do I draw and compose right into clay? what else allows me to put "signs on substrates" in a meaningful way that continues to let me "graphic design" but really does something about material usage; education; communication; etc???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Am I a sustainable designer? or am I a sustainable person that happens to design — everything I design is thus influenced by my sustainabilitism.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What is the goal of "designing." If everything is a design project; is making new forms important; isn't just fixing what needs fixing an example of "good design" — does the solution need to be novel? (If I design and sew a travelling silverware roll using salvaged cloth and found silverware is that any less of a design project than designing a new folding "hobo knife"?) IF the answer is no, it's not different, then wtf, what am I doing, what am I teaching? If the answer is yes, it is different; do I want to be a "designer" then? Why not just a vernacular crafter or builder? Is this counterculture modernism? Whole earthers did some things like this right? Zomes? Papanek's coffee can radio? A lot of reuse; but with the goal of making things people need in the moment? Still new things; but a repurposed or reconfigured materials based on what is at hand; what is readily available? What is design: making things we want? making things we need? Solving problems? what problems? whose problems? What does it take to let "sustainability" or "restorative design" take a hold in mainstream culture/society? does it need to be more of a religion? more of a political party? Do there need to be more movies or kids shows or whatever that fully embrace doing something about climate change as their theme to affect a change? Regular TV news? obviously the current journalism does little. Why? What else can I speculatively brainstorm? science fiction books are a plenty. Can we make this a WWII like "war effort" to fight the evils of climate change? Reframe everything in the context of us against the greenhouse gasses — C02 increasing is the same as the Nazi's winning Europe? What other ways of framing this are there? I need to try more! That's another potential win for Graphic Design — communicating this in as many ways as is possible.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        How does graphic design take carbon back out of the atmosphere? what can communication design (meaning what can signs on substrates) do to get carbon out of the air and into the ground? to keep carbon bottled up? does making bricks of plastic and then shaving them into paper help? does making my own paper from used clothes and scrap paper help? what else can I do??? just picking risograph isn't enough. Just buying some renewable offsets isn't enough. How does this bake into designing generally? to design pedagogy? to society at large?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Stabilizing the climate isn't about reducing emissions, we have to _zero_ our emissions. Instead of just lowering things, we need to stop completel and then actually remove carbon from the atmosphere. Driving an EV doesn't cut it. replacing a car w/ a used bicycle & your lawn with a permaculture garden is a much better start.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        to change a system; intervene in small ways around the edges ... at some point that system will react to those changes and be made to change ??? small is not less important than big in a complex system.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Designing Tomorrow's World Today: What design does this; what did the messaging around Ozone depletion look like? What about carson's silent spring related anti-chemical rhetoric? what about WWII "we need you" type things? Oh man, that's a great resource — war time propoganda posters. Does that stuff work now? what is cultural convincing design now? what is design that causes people to follow and just do?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Survival of the most generous interconnected groups.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        life-affirming design thing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Every graphic design problem's answer is not a book; or a poster; or an identity... it is not necessarily a visual design problem; superficial 2D surface decoration isn't the answer to every problem — though the thinking of a designer might reveal an interesting solution still... Can it always be framed as signs on substrates (signs on surfaces?) even if not a visual "answer"?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        if sustainability is a cyclical, restorative, resilant, flourishing, non-anthropocentric, maintenance-based, stewardship, co-existing thing...... what? you cannot expect everyone to understand what you mean by sustainability — so do we need other words; or do we just need to say that we mean all those other things when we say sustainability. it is a shorthand sign for all those other words...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Design is about connections. Design is about bringing people and ideas and problems and solutions together.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Design only works when it is trying to achieve a success for the planet; for the welfare of all life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        We do not have unlimited energy. We do not have unlimited resources. How does this change our relationship with designing? With capitalism? with our economic ideals?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What do I want to sustain? What does the welfare of all life really look like? really entail? How do you actually design for this? What kind of design challenges structural inequalities and balances equity, ecology, and economy? Design that collaborates so as to create lasting, positive change in one's community?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. A carbon sequestering book / Carbon Sink Book

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Idea: A book printed in an ink that acts as a carbon sink — the book's text only shows up gradually; it has to absorb the carbon to become black!!??

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        how does graphic designing remove carbon? can a book recycle plastic? what logo captures the most carbon? what typeface uses the least energy and/or ink? what aesthetic is the most decolonizing? whose bias am I perpetuating? does designing matter? is building a wetland better than building a website? is using solar power better than writing all this shit down?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. paper. Some alternative fiber paper; 50% recycled content; 50% permaculture grown prairiegrass fiber or something? reusing waste and practicing regenerative agriculture. 2. Ink. This is the real special sauce. How can something be printed clear; then the composition of the ink absorbs carbon dioxide out of the air, stores the carbon, and slowly darkens to carbon black over time!?!?!?! Oh, and is this compostable at the end of its life as well? 3. Cover. Again, cover needs to be compostable, recycled + permaculture fibers, and perhaps the type/image on the cover is just blind debossed? 4. Binding. Perfect bind? use some sort of compostable glue? What else would need to be figured out?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The climate is changing. What does that mean. Social climates, ecological climates, both. How are climate and weather related? how does graphic design show or make this all more understandable? is focusing on climate change even important? is it too big? too abstract? What's the perspective of Drawdown.org on that idea? How does Climate Designers fit into all of this? What framework or ideology should lead? What about AirMiners? as a community do they have any stronger organizing principle or concepts other than just "get carbon out of the atmosphere and into other sinks?" What is the minimum you need to learn to understand this? to have enough people grok this to actually change some behaviors? to change some social and cultural structures? What does a climate friendly museum look like? what does a climate friendly school look like?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Success in Climate Designer goals

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Success in climate designers' goals means a future where "climate designers" no longer exist. *Climate designing* becomes plain *designing*. Did you use a grid? did you sequester carbon? did you match your aesthetic to you audience? did you reduce your energy requirements? did you kern your headlines? did you restore spaceship earth? No? well then that's *bad* design.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. What is a climate designer?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A Climate Designer is a designer engaging with the climate in their work and/or teaching.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. What does a Climate Designer make

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Let's look at The carbon negative book as an example of work Climate Designers should concept, make, and develop: design objects clearly embodying aspects of climate change. And while a sequestering book isn't likely to exist anytime soon, even the *idea* of objects like that is useful. A book like this would require the absorption of known amount of CO2 to become legible — this becomes a sign for X quantity of carbon and helps one grasp what is otherwise intangible.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I like to call designs like this "Signs signaling Sustainability." This is the real opportunity for Designers taking climate action — turning each design opportunity into a sign signaling sustainability. Make tangible, make understandable something about climate change. This is doable no matter the project; no matter the prompt.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        So this seuqestering book example focuses on "visualizing CO2". But, there are myriad other aspects of climate change and sustainability one might signal.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Where Else to get Inspired

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I am *drawn* to [Project DrawDown](https://www.DrawDown.org) as a framework for revealing opportunities for "signs signaling sustainability". Project DrawDown presents the most effective means for pulling carbon out of the atmostphere. Digging into all the "solutions" on Project DrawDown, the ways artists and designers might involve themselves is multitudinous. All kinds of work can be reframed as a "sign signaling sustainability" if you rethink the aims of a prompt so that it fits into an idea from Project DrawDown's table of solutions.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Reverberation Crosswalk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Take for instance Graham Coreil Allen's *Reverberation Crosswalks*. On the surface, these are fun, brightly colored crosswalks — paint on cement and asphalt; not particularly innovative in the "new materials" or "direct carbon capture." But! looking at Project DrawDown solutions, *walkable cities* is the 50th overall reduction solution. Suddenly *Reverberations Crosswalks* signals a sustainable vector forward. The neighborhood around this school is more walkable. You can't not notice the crosswalks, hopefully this makes you more likely to walk yourself. This concept is cheap; fast; easily replicated; can be customized for region, culture, available materials, etc.; AND can help make more people walk in the city. Bam! Climate Designed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Solar.lowtechmagazine.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Distributed Solar Photovoltaics is also on Drawdown's list. And Low Tech Magazine's solar powered website signals how we might visualize energy usage; how we might enable new sytems of powering our tools; questions if we really need constant connection; and how aesthetic choices correlate to physical resources even in the digital sphere.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. DC High Water Mark Project

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The DC water mark project visualizes increased flooding and water level rise — where these impacts will be felt by you in this place! The water level rings articulates to us "oh shit, this place might be underwater pretty frequently given our current projected future!" Then maybe we can act accordingly and redirect our present towards a future where that is no longer true. Without *seeing* your house or office or favorite park area submerged, even symoblically, you cannot envision an alternative.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Other

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        - Improvisational Lamps? - Amager Bakke unmade vapor ring? - Print posters on found paper?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Future Possibles?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        These examples communicate additional information as key aspects of their design. They redirect culture towards better *future possibles.* And! this is a great place to work as a graphic designer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. The Futures Cone!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        So, I need to actually produce something of substance, something of value. What do I have to offer? What can I write about coherently and succintly? is that important or is just getting new and different ideas that point in utopian directions all that matters?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        - Precious Plastics - Exhibition with sue spaid? - More Climate designers stuff - Lectures! Talks! - Twitch stream more F/LOS design stuff? - Video Essays? Video Lectures? - Ideas... thoughts... philosophies... manifestos... - Carbon Neutral House Things!?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Linus Torvalds's style of development—release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity—came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who'd take submissions from anyone) out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The fact that this bazaar style seemed to work, and work well, came as a distinct shock. As I learned my way around, I worked hard not just at individual projects, but also at trying to understand why the Linux world not only didn't fly apart in confusion but seemed to go from strength to strength at a speed barely imaginable to cathedral-builders.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Eric Raymond / http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Thoughts on Sustainabilitist Aesthetics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What comes to mind when you read the phrase “sustainable graphic design?” Is there a particular aesthetic? Is there a particular kind of client? Is there a particular visual trope or particular look or feel? How about a particular message?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Despite ruminating over this question for years, I’ve never quite been satisfied with my half-answers, and I still haven’t found a solid solution. I am currently inclined to believe that there is no single way that sustainable graphic design looks, nor a single “correct” way that it is made (what materials it might be, or what processes it includes can be easily sorted into good, bad, ugly, less bad, etc. — but one golden solution does not exist). However, I do believe there are some particular messages and clients that are not okay if you are a sustainabilitist.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Where does a designer start in sorting this out?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A Place to Start

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          John Ehrenfeld states in the book Flourishing “The key to doing something about sustainability is that you first have to say what you want to sustain.” Ehrenfeld wants to sustain that “all humans and other life should flourish” (pg 23). Using Ehrenfeld’s thinking, Sustainable Graphic Design is design made for clients that believe all life should flourish, design made to promote messages about sustainability-as-flourishing, and design made with materials and processes that promote and sustain the state of flourishing too.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Graphic designers are form makers. Sustainable graphic designers must make formal decisions. How does the sustainable designer concern themselves with the forms and aesthetics of a solution? Are there visual choices that are more sustainable? What form says “I believe that humans and all life should flourish?” Are aesthetics as they relate to sustainability even important?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          These are complicated questions.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sustainability and Beauty.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to our flourishing. A transubstantiation of our individual ideals in material medium.” — Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness, pg. 100

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          In The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton provides some insights useful in trying to solve aesthetic quandaries around sustainability and formal beauty. Beautiful design embodies and sustains the values you hold dear.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Following Botton’s thinking, sustainable designers should see the non-sustainable as the less-than beautiful, even the ugly. Only truly sustainable things — meaning objects and forms that inspire sustainable ideals — should count as beautiful. Beautiful things ARE sustainable things, and vice versa.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Burgeoning sustainabilitists wishing to de-clutter their lives may come across [a piece by Bruce Sterling](http://viridiandesign.org/) that echoes similar sentiments. Sterling outlines four criteria for sorting through the objects you own so as to decide what to keep and what to discard as a part of your new, sustainably designed life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Beautiful Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Sentimental Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Utilitarian Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Everything else.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If an object in your possession fits into the first three categories (beautiful, sentimental, or utilitarian things), then it is worth keeping. If it falls into “Everything Else” you must be rid of it. Sterling is interested in these categories from the point of view that sustainabilitists should have the right stuff — right meaning the best functioning, most meaningful, prettiest stuff. By virtue of being objects that you really need or want to have around just by being so lovely to look at, these things rise above just plain detritus to become more valuable, more sustainable objects (even if it just means you replace them less often).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          When Alain de Botton talks about beauty in design and architecture, I think his “beauty” encompasses all of Sterling’s top 3 categories.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          But, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This starts to explain why “what does sustainable graphic design looks like?” is such a hard question to answer. It also explains why Sterling found the need to break his list of criteria four separate entities, and not just “beautiful things” and “everything else.” To me, a nice hammer is functional, utilitarian, and beautiful. To you, it might just be functional. The paintings and drawings I find beautiful are what another might find ugly. The things I find sentimental are probably unique to me. Not everyone has the same idea of what should be sustained as not everyone thinks the same things are beautiful.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Is there really no “correct” aesthetic choice?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Visual Experiment.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A guest came to class to present his work. He designs and builds furniture exclusively from reclaimed materials. The students were very excited about his ideas, but as a group deemed the furniture aesthetically undesirable. The found materials spoke too loudly, and everything looked “Reused” — some of the time in a negative way (purely from an aesthetic stand point). To the students, this proved problematic as it occurs again and again in green and sustainable design projects: the work wears its heart too much on its sleeve; it looks too eco-friendly and unrefined. This was not what they wanted for their work nor for Sustainability as a whole. In their projects, many of the students were actively trying to make work that avoided looking specifically Reused, energy-efficient, or “green.” The work was meant to just be “good graphic design” — that it should look like other design, yet be more “good” in that it also embraced various aspects of Sustainability.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Toward this end, student’s projects took on different shapes, forms, and styles. Of general interest was to avoid the current tropes of “greenness” or “eco-friendly-ness.” To find new visual themes for sustainable design to draw from. Some formal solutions were influenced by their concepts, some forms directly influenced by materials (though not in as earnest a way as the furniture maker’s works), and some just looked like regular old graphic design. Some were fantastical; some were practical. Regardless of their speculativeness, none of the project directions ended up being “wrong” as a sustainable design project. All the student’s projects have in some way attempted to solve what it means to be “sustainable graphic design,” and many aesthetic and conceptual approaches were used.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Each student sorted out for themselves what might be both a sustainable and a beautiful design solution. The one thing all works this term did share in common was the message — not a style, not a material, but a recurring message. The message revolved around variants of “include sustainable thinking more authentically in your life (and through your life, into your design practice).”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          My students’s works this term have shown me that a “correct” style may be irrelevant when it comes to what sustainable graphic design should look like. Maybe it is just the message that matters.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Other Places of Interest

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          In looking to artists and designers from previous movements, innovators we’ve historically documented are known for novel visuals, but got to those novel visuals by exploring new ideologic territory and experimenting with different ways of thinking. Avant garde visuals stemming from these movements were the result of the ideas (or ideals) to come out of their novel thinking, not really the main ideas themselves. Our past is not about style for style’s sake, but style that illuminates a theoretical position (or at least style that is arrived at from a thought process, from a set of values, or from some set of hypotheses).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          How do I reconcile what my students have shown me — that all styles can be sustainable — with these thoughts? Sustainability is a new way of thinking, so shouldn’t it carry with it a new style?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I want there to be a concrete solution as to what sustainable graphic design looks like. I want it to be different and special. I want it to be better. However, perhaps that is undesirable; perhaps it is against the ideals of sustainability. Part of flourishing is the opportunity for many diverse solutions to a problem. Nature never typically solves any problem in just one way. Successful, resilient systems have many redundancies — that is what makes them resilient. Why shouldn’t sustainability be able to have many styles and aesthetics? Why should there only be one way something looks to be “sustainable?”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alain de Botton repeatedly references a line from the French writer Stendahl: “there are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness” (pg 100). Perhaps my thinking on sustainable graphic design’s look must take it’s cue from this. Anything that looks in such a way that it helps promote the flourishing of nature’s interconnected systems will look correct. That doesn’t require a particular style, material, or typeface — just the right ideals or messages.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          An amazing tool for writing, creating, interlinking, and ideating. It is what is currently powering this Knowledge Garden.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Allowing time to pass opens the door to adaptability and evolution. We must adopt the gradual change of nature into our design processes. Time in design allows for keeping and improving the good, while discarding the bad. Objects will be allowed to sustain their inherent value and thus receive prolonged use.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          To call a work of architecture or design beautiful…

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sustainability and Beauty

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to our flourishing. A transubstantiation of our individual ideals in material medium.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness, pg. 100

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          To change everything we need everyone

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            To define sustainable graphic design…

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            To define sustainable graphic design we must first define what it is we are sustaining.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              August 24, 1978; Amherst, Massachusetts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Can I find photos of this?? > http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/delevigne-lionel/

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Towards an Open Source Design 020210906

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              24th September 2021 at 12:25am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              F/LOS Lecture

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Introduction

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This lecture takes Free/Libre Open Source (F/LOS) as a lens to rethink design practice and pedagogy, and provides an overview of F/LOS concepts, figures, and thinking. The narrative inter-connects these concepts with historical design precedent and outcomes from a class, “Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source.” The presentation ends with thoughts for how design practice and pedagogy improve by adopting F/LOS.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source ran from January to May of 2018 at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). The course asked students to explore F/LOS software and ideologies in producing graphic design. Other than “earnestly experiment with F/LOS tools,” the main projects were working with the MICA library on an identity and print materials, and collaboratively writing, designing, and printing a book that was exemplary of and about our F/LOS exercises and experiments. Each week we discussed how F/LOS’s ideas and technologies might serve the students’ (and the greater design communities) needs better than mainstream offerings.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Three lectures and workshops at MICA inspired the class’ origins. Loraine Furter and Eric Schrijver, members of a collective known as “Open Source Publishing,” ran two workshops: one using public domain resources in one’s design practice, and one customizing open source fonts. David Crossland of Google Fonts visited MICA and demoed new open source variable typefaces that Google and Type Network , collaborated on. Ending his lecture, Crossland explained how he ended up working at Google Fonts in the first place: being a lover and supporter of F/LOS. With Furter and Schrijver’s examples for how design practice might embrace F/LOS, and through casual conversation with Crossland about his libre font and software background, F/LOS ideals and tools felt like good exploratory territory for a graphic design course.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Open Source Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A search for “Open Source Design” online returns The Open Source Design Manifesto by Garth Braithwaite, a designer working on open source projects at Adobe. Braithwaite’s manifesto made a simple starting point in understanding how F/LOS impacts graphic design. The manifesto reads:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I will:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • find opportunities to design in the open
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • share my design experiences; both the good and the bad
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • find time for meaningful projects
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • openly participate in design discussions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • work with other designers by choice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • improve my toolbox

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In a 2013 talk called “Designers Can Open Source,” Braithwaite explains actions and behaviors designers might adopt for the “open-ness” the manifesto aims to inspire. The main tenant is to share more: “Sharing process, especially the failures, really helps” and “post as you are working, show how things evolve.” This creates an ecosystem where designers are more collaborative and more open with their neighbors — more unselfconscious — making design knowledge more effectively shared. Taking Braithwaite’s ideas to heart, our class made sharing and communicating a goal. To facilitate this we moved our class’ project files to repositories on Github (Braithwaite mentions Github as a tool for sharing and collaborating for codebases, we tried it for designing). We wanted to earnestly “design in the open.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              How Bazaar

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Contemporary open source understanding (Braithwaite’ included) comes from Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. In the essay, Raymond analyzes Linus Torvalds’ (and his distributed hacker crew’s) development of the Linux Kernel. Raymond found magic in Torvald’s “release early, release often” mantra and distributed method of working. Raymond points to the maxim “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone,” or “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” as key to Linus’s (and Linux’s) success. Get as many self-selected, expert users as possible to tinker with a design; then ask those same users to share everything wrong they find. As fixes are made, redistribute updates as fast as possible back to the group. Problem finding and solving is accelerated (duplicate searches end quickly since redistribution of fixes is rapid). This was crucial to Linux’s stability and rapid improvement.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Braithwaite is encouraging designers to adopt the same shared, distributed model in hopes that many skilled eyes will also make light work. , Graphic designers aim to find the best visual solution to a problem, but do we show “buggy” ideas to clients, colleagues, or stake holders as part of our process in such an unselfconcious way? This is done easily within the classroom or in the studio between colleagues: hang work on the walls; pass designs between desks/desktops as they develop; look over each other’s shoulders. It can take place out in the world by using services like Dribbble, Behance, and Github. But, open designing is not about accruing comments like “cool!” or “nice work!” or “wow! what’s that great esoteric typeface!” The goal is real solutions to unsolved problems. Designers and audience members other than ourselves might see things differently, catch things we have missed, or have a solution waiting that we have not found on our own (or have not found yet, thus shortening our solution’s path).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Our Special Topics: Open Source class had moved our project files to Github, and we also decided to utilize Github’s issue queue to aid in communal problem solving — making sure we lent each other our eyes. Issues let a user reveal found problems to the “community” (in this case our class, but in general the maintainer and anyone else interested in a project) and then request help with solution finding. Peers peruse each other’s queues attempting aid by providing thoughts; sharing a tutorial; or downloading, tweaking, and re-publishing a fix. For our class, utilizing issue queues kept us a community beyond the classroom when at our homes or working from separate studios across campus. It was also incredibly complicated! For visual design projects the Github “distributed critique” made it hard to get deeper into each others’ experiments that just superficials; it was easy to provide basic visual feedback — asking a question isn’t hard; theorizing isn’t too much work; throwing up a screen shot or two is easy; a “this is working, that isn’t” is no problem. But, forking someone’s project, opening the files, and trying to make sense of design decisions AND understand the context and content of that direction? That required time that not many ended up undertaking. Our class found what most open source communities have found — a small percentage of the community are actually responsible for the majority of the work; most “members” merely download and attempt to use the software, code, utility, whatever, not actually help problem solve and improve.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Free Means Freedom

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The community aspects that Braithwaite and Raymond point to are not all there is to F/LOS — and not all that might interest a Graphic Designer. Torvalds was working on the Linux Kernel to aid in the completing of a larger project: GNU. GNU was created by Richard Stallman as “an operating system that is free software — that is, it respects users’ freedom.” This is where the Free/Libre part of Free/Libre Open Source came from.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Stallman predicated Free software on the following essential freedoms:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is non free.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Free software defined by Stallman values users, it does not want to enslave a user to the will of a program or the will of that program’s developer. Stallman’s motivation in 1983 was to maintain the share-and-share-alike, vernacular-like model computer programmers were accustomed to where all are able to build upon existing works. Stallman saw this under attack (most accounts claim that “free software” was birthed when Xerox asked a peer programmer not to share a printer’s source code with Stallman). He was also motivated by being a good citizen.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              “I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.” — Richard Stallman

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Braithwaite nor Raymond deal with any ethical points in their discussions or analysis of open source. Neither take point of view as to why making should be done this way other than that “open design” arrives at better designs while saving resources. But “better” in that context is about less bugs and faster improvements, not “better” morals. Corporate culture has embraced the “open source” part of F/LOS, , what about the Stallman-esque Free/Libre piece, does that have implications for designing?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In “Designer as Author” Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose that designers “develop a parallel design activity that questions and challenges industrial agendas.” This is design that is in opposition to mainstream culture. Stallman’s ideals play wonderfully with this “critical design” perspective — Stallman is promoting critical software. Free Software challenges proprietary software’s agendas. Designers fully embracing “free-ness” in their software end up precluding themselves from the normal range of design tools, but open themselves to new territory better representing socially conscious and sustainability related content (the ideology of respecting a user [an audience] matches nicely with a socially aware design practice). Switching one’s software in this context is a critical act.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Students in Special Topics: Open Source formulating practices around “design is political” or “design is ideological” found Stallman’s position more valuable than the pure pragmatics of Braithwaite’s “share more.” Using collective making to more rapidly come to a solution was not the important bit from F/LOS — the good citizen-ship was! That tools might now reflect one’s ethics was a valuable discovery. But, somewhat ironically, in adopting full libre practices for ideological reasons, collaboration can be more difficult. A peer’s set of tools may no longer be your tools. So, though F/LOS tools might not always be possible, protecting an audience member’s freedom is. Stallman’s golden rule still holds true: “… The Golden Rule requires that if I like a program [design] I must share it with other people who like it.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Special Topics: Open Source class collaborated with MICA’s library on new print and signage materials. The library thinks of itself as an open entity within the school — the ideals of Stallman’s and F/LOS at large are mirrored by the Library’s director and staff (free-ness of information, open access, collaboration, etc.). There were limitations to how “free” we could be — we had to create files with Adobe Creative Cloud (it is a standard toolset for MICA offices), and we had to use the institution’s fonts. Though software and fonts were non-free, students did still go to great lengths to find ways of using F/LOS content and the share-and-share alike mentalities. One student utilized the MICA library’s personal archives for imagery. These are often works in the public domain, with no known copyright holder, or that the MICA Library directly holds the rights to. Reusing and remixing in the vernacular/open source vein is now a possibility for future library works. The class used issue queues to help divide and assign work; and the library staff were able to have access to the repositories to provide some input. The MICA brand guidelines themselves can be made more powerful if following institutional “open sourcing” is the goal. Instead of blindly following brand guides, find holes and places for improvement. There was one “bug” that the class asked the MICA communications department about for the library materials: what default set of icons should MICA school projects use? The communications team didn’t have an answer, and since then have been exploring what the best way to solve a branded icon set institutionally with some of our work as starting point.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A Conclusion?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We as visual designers are not precluded from accessing the techniques and ideas of F/LOS. Graphic Designers can integrate F/LOS into their practice both pragmatically and conceptually: more and more (and better and better) tools exist from this realm (Github, Inkscape, Nodebox, etc.). F/LOS offers chances for design as a social critique; design that returns to unselfconcious, vernacular roots (open source isn’t new, it is basically the way that human creative endeavors have historically come into existence ); and design that serves more than just stereotypical clients and business needs (or, can serve those needs, but even better (faster and w/ less bugs!)). In choosing F/LOS alternatives in software a designer can say “I (and my tools) have different ethics than you (and your tools).” Designer’s adopting F/LOS critique the status quo. And even simply trying to make things with F/LOSS makes us better designers. Experiencing (or struggling with) new tools reminds that “goodness” in an interface, typeface or other artifact is often based on familiarity — when things do not behave as expected they appear less good, whether or not this is objectively true.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Making with F/LOS tools and ideals has pedagogical implications: all designers become teachers and students. A design file that one can open up and poke around in is useful for anyone to learn from (how’d they organize these layers? what makes that loopity-loop animate?). Since everyone can see the source code information transfer can go back and forth through many different paths, not just from the top down. F/LOS tools are also likely to use open file formats that can be used across a wide variety of other tools and mediums — so you aren’t locked into one program (even if the program’s filetype is specific, the many filetypes are really some type of XML, so you can still “read” the file with a text editor to get what is going on). It’s not just having access to files that is important, deciding to use F/LOSS means you have access to more kinds of tools; more options for making are available. There are F/LOS tools that do not exist in offerings from Adobe or Autodesk (the Spiro spline drawing tool which finds its way into InkScape and FontForge, or generative design tools like NodeBox and Processing). Seeing other kinds of vector drawing options might open space for one to make new things. If you believe that as an educator part of your role is to build on the knowledge of the past to create new knowledge you must adopt F/LOS.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Special Topics in Graphic Design: Open Source class meandered along over the the term — but always in the direction of becoming more open; more libre. Despite not always being able to be fully libre (Richard Stallman would not have approved all our methods or tools), we did come out at the end of the term with new points of view on what makes a graphic design practice “good.” To the students “goodness” in a design practice now includes being open to sharing one’s work (failures and successes; code, files, etc.). Goodness also means building on works when and where you can (and letting others build and re-use your works). By increasing the variety of tools and techniques at one’s disposal (by utilizing open source tools, even in addition to proprietary ones — students didn’t think we needed to fully abandon our old tools and operating systems to be “libre designers” — one massively increases possibilities for formal output) a design practice can be more good. And, goodness also means operating ethically — attempting to make your designs ethical in the context of the golden rule (do unto others…), or in egalitarian access, or in not enslaving or entrapping an audience to the will of a client or a designer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              So, the next time you go looking fonts, icons, templates, stock illustrations, or frameworks for a design project look for free/libre open source ones. F/LOS offers up not only a pragmatic approach reviving how we have historically created socio-cultural artifacts, but also a critical approach that through utilizing ideologically based software and tools intentionally positions itself in opposition to mainstream modern-techno-capitalism.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Towards Purer Content

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5th July 2021 at 1:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Essays Pure Content Utopian Gestures

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The end-form of the content should dictate the style — visual style should not be baked into the content itself. The content should remain structured, yet style-less (WYSIWYM over WYSIWYG [What-you-see-is-what-you-mean instead of what-you-see-is-what-you-get]). Structure must be semantically implied with simple meta data added to content. This structured, un-styled, meta data rich content can then be fed to whatever service, tool, program, etc. required for the display type desired.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We are not yet in this perfect world.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The common tools we use are ill-suited for un-styled content creation. Word processors wrap text in formatting hard to remove for use in other contexts. Desktop publishing platforms lock content into layout files incompatible with other workflows. WYSIWYG tools bloat content with impure markup making content there hard to Reuse or migrate. This impure content withers and dies, chained into a file format, storage method, or self-imposed style prison.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This does not have to be the case.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Purer content is achievable. Pure Content is able to evolve and live in different templates, different places, and migrate seamlessly between different future-friendly formats. There are a variety of ways that content can better conform to an idealized “pure” form that is more flexible and more future friendly than current options …

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Towards Relational Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              21st July 2021 at 1:00pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Is there an overarching philosophy that can connect projects from such diverse fields as architecture, graphic and product design? Or are we beyond such pronouncements? Should we even expect such grand narratives anymore?
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A cumulative body of multigenerational knowledge, practices, and beliefs.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                From Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                true sustainability

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Tsundoku

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ubuntu

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                One of the most popular distros of GNU/Linux

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It's a Fork of Debian (maybe? – see To Fork or Not To Fork: Lessons From Ubuntu and Debian)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I've tried it, its one of the easiest to install on any machine. But its slow and heavy and laggy and isn't an improvement over the annoyances I have with Mac and Windows in the first place.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                UN Sustainable Development Goals

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. No Poverty
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. No Hunger
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Good health and well-being
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Quality Education
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. Gender Equality
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                6. Clean Water and Sanitation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                7. Affordable AND Clean Energy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9. Industry, Innovation, Infrastructure
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                10. Reduced Inequalities
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                12. Responsible Consumption and Production
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                13. Climate Action
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                14. Life Below Water
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                15. Life on Land
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                17. Partnerships for the Goals

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Understanding Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                20th July 2021 at 11:14pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Understanding Sustainability: Actions (The Triple Bottom Line)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Understanding Sustainability: Philosophy (Everything Is Connected)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Climate Solutions 101

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Building the future we want requires an understanding of our collective past. Explore the last 50 years of stunning change—from food demand, water, population, ocean health, and beyond—to see our current climate inflection point in context. This introductory video is a fascinating must-watch before continuing your Climate Solutions 101 journey.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Unit 2: Stopping Climate Change

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                20th October 2021 at 11:44pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Climate Solutions 101

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                To achieve drawdown—the point when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start declining—it’s important to understand the sources of emissions and nature’s means of rebalancing the climate system. In this unit: Explore the sources and impacts of greenhouse gases, and zero-in on three critical principles: reducing sources, supporting nature’s “sinks” for storing carbon, and centering equality in global action.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                With Jonathan Foley

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Unit 3: Reducing Sources

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                20th October 2021 at 11:44pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Climate Solutions 101

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How can we stop harmful emissions in their tracks? Discover fascinating, up-to-date methods for halting emissions before they reach the atmosphere. This unit walks through the five largest sources of greenhouse gases—electricity, food, industry, transportation, and buildings—bringing the path to a safer, low-carbon economy into sharper relief. Learn which sources make up the biggest slices of the global emissions pie.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                With Jonathan Foley

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Tagged with Unit 3: Reducing Sources

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  University of Utah Visit Ideas

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Use Less Ink

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1st November 2021 at 12:42am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Reduce

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  How is this a useful design contraint? Can we always use less? when is more okay? how does one actually usefully measure this?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Utah Workshop 202103111331

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6th July 2021 at 12:16am
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Word Count: 144
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Utah Workshop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  020210311131133 Entry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Typologies?


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Typology:


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  In this project you will examine everyday objects and experiences. Visual research and intuitive making will lead to formal experiment, meaning making, and poster design. To start, please go through Project Drawdown's Solutions and find something that interests you.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  You will conduct research on-line that will help inform this project. You may free-associate and/or stray from your original subject as you see fit. The goal is to reconsider our relationship to a thing or experience that once seemed familiar, and explore its application to design and culture at large.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  PART 1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  An experimental, expressive graphic exploration that responds to the source material: Drawdown.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Slideshow with bibliography
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 20 experimental compositions, explore type only, image only and type and image combined

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (WK1 & WK2)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  PART 2

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Two posters that create a dialogue about your topic and that challenge your audience to think critically.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 2 printed or animated posters, sized to your discretion.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Each poster must use:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • a grid
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 3 levels of hierarchy including a heading
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 200 words of text
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • at least one image.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  What all of this means of course is up to you: the size, grid, etc. should all make sense based on your approach... how can you "make meaning" through selecting these design elements – not just through your text/image choices?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (WK3 & WK4)


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Assigned Mar 23, due Mar 30:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wk1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Research & Collection

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Collect ideas and references from the reading; Collect visuals from recommended sources; Collect other information as needed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Deliverables: slideshow with bibliography of sources

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Read Through Project Drawdown's table of solutions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Choose a solution that interests you.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Skim across the solutions, and once you pick one that interests you, please read your chosen section carefully.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What else can you then go and find about this solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • where is it done? who is doing it? is this pragmatic today? what new opportunities does this create? what changes in society/culture are required? what new thinking is necessary? what does this extend or enhance? what else does this amputate or deprecate?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Create a typology study:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Make a list of 10 key words that describe your solution, or that you find otherwise important or related.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Find 3 aphorisms or quotes that describe something about the solution beyond what's on Project Drawdown's site.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Look at free/libre/opensource/creative commons/public domain resources and collect images, illustrations, diagrams, patterns, etc that you think can illustrate the chosen solution.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What literal objects represent your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What metaphors apply to your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What possible allusions can you make in design, art, architecture, literature, history, anthropology, economics, etc, to your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What personal influences and interests would you like to combine with your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Present your research and typology collections as a PDF slide show.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • To Include: your drawdown solution selection, your words, your found aphorisms or quotes, and your image research.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • The last page should be a bibliography of your sources.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Assigned Mar 30, due April 6:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wk2

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Formal experimentation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  An experimental, expressive graphic exploration that responds to and expands on your selected

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Based on your research and collecting from WK1, please create 20 experimental compositions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Make 20 square collages using whatever tools work for you.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Explore the form-making potential of the words, aphorisms, and images you have gathered by manipulating type and image.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Consider both analog and digital manipulation of letterforms and images.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • How does the meaning of words change if you use a different typeface?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • How do the compositions communicate your specific interpretation of the topic?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • How can you use type and image to communicate spatial relationships and environments? Consider shadow, plane, perspective, overlay and depth.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Go wild with experimentation! What you can do to alter an image or typeface?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Abstract, make it modular, texturize, pattern, cut, tear, float, fold, frame, mask, project, adorn, alter...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • These are not precious
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Be un-selfconcious
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • work fast and try disparate directions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Present compositions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Assigned April6, due April 13:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wk3

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Create a poster diptych.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Make two posters that express different aspects of your topic. The points of view can be complementary or contrasting.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Build on your experimental compositions. Discover coincidences — both visual and language-based.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Is there a composition that could be used as a grid for one or more of the posters?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Could you combine two or more of the compositions?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Have you discovered a certain technique that you want to replicate in the posters?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Requirements:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Use a grid!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Poster must have 3 levels of hierarchy and include a heading
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • use at least 200 words of text and at least one image
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • The definition for what a "poster" is can be variable: a traditional poster? small? giant? a billboard? a building? a website? animation? a wind turbine? video? app? what is a poster for and how does a different medium or framework still do that?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Speculate what materials or processes your poster should use > is your topic direct air capture of carbon dioxide? what do we do with the resulting stored carbon so that it is sequestered? can it be used as a printing medium for a poster!? Think about the solution you've chosen from Drawdown, and how does that influece your understanding of what a poster is and how you should hypothetically make your poster.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  April 13:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wk4

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Critique
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Posters due
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Present however necessary for your poster concepts.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Turn in Final Documentation?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • include all the materials you created over the course of this project.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Utah Workshop 202103171609

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6th July 2021 at 12:16am
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Word Count: 209
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Utah Workshop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This project will research and examine a topic related to climate change through the exploration of public domain visual resources.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Visual research and intuitive making will lead to formal experiment, meaning making, and poster design.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • To start, please go through Project Drawdown's Solutions and find something that interests you.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Conduct research on-line to help inform this project. Dig into whichever solution you choose from project DrawDown — what else can you learn? what is there to draw design ideas from?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Collecting reusable graphics from the provided free-use sources that you somehow decide relate. What signs, symbols, images, etc. allow for metaphor and new meaning to be unvcoverd?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • You may free-associate and/or stray somewhat from your original subject as the project evolves.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • The goal is to reconsider our relationship to a thing or experience that perhaps seemed familiar in one context, and explore its application to design and culture in a new context.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  PART 1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  An experimental, expressive graphic exploration that responds to the source material: Drawdown.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Slideshow with bibliography
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 20 experimental compositions, explore type only, image only and type and image combined

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (WK1 & WK2)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  PART 2

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Two posters that create a dialogue about your topic and that challenge your audience to think critically.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 2 printed or animated posters, sized to your discretion.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Each poster must use:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • a grid
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 3 levels of hierarchy including a heading
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 200 words of text
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • at least one image.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  What all of this means of course is up to you: the size, grid, etc. should all make sense based on your approach... how can you "make meaning" through selecting these design elements – not just through your text/image choices?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (WK3 & WK4)


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Assigned Mar 23, due Mar 30:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wk1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Research & Collection

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Collect ideas and references from the reading; Collect visuals from recommended sources; Collect other information as needed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Deliverables: slideshow with bibliography of sources

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Read Through Project Drawdown's table of solutions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Choose a solution that interests you.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Skim across the solutions, and once you pick one that interests you, please read your chosen section carefully.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What else can you then go and find about this solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • where is it done? who is doing it? is this pragmatic today? what new opportunities does this create? what changes in society/culture are required? what new thinking is necessary? what does this extend or enhance? what else does this amputate or deprecate?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Create a typology study:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Make a list of 10 key words that describe your solution, or that you find otherwise important or related.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Find 3 aphorisms or quotes that describe something about the solution beyond what's on Project Drawdown's site.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Look at free/libre/opensource/creative commons/public domain resources and collect images, illustrations, diagrams, patterns, etc that you think can illustrate the chosen solution.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What literal objects represent your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What metaphors apply to your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What possible allusions can you make in design, art, architecture, literature, history, anthropology, economics, etc, to your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • What personal influences and interests would you like to combine with your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Present your research and typology collections as a PDF slide show.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • To Include: your drawdown solution selection, your words, your found aphorisms or quotes, and your image research.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • The last page should be a bibliography of your sources.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Assigned Mar 30, due April 6:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wk2

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Formal experimentation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  An experimental, expressive graphic exploration that responds to and expands on your selected

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Based on your research and collecting from WK1, please create 20 experimental compositions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Make 20 square collages using whatever tools work for you.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Explore the form-making potential of the words, aphorisms, and images you have gathered by manipulating type and image.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Consider both analog and digital manipulation of letterforms and images.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • How does the meaning of words change if you use a different typeface?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • How do the compositions communicate your specific interpretation of the topic?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • How can you use type and image to communicate spatial relationships and environments? Consider shadow, plane, perspective, overlay and depth.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Go wild with experimentation! What you can do to alter an image or typeface?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Abstract, make it modular, texturize, pattern, cut, tear, float, fold, frame, mask, project, adorn, alter...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • These are not precious
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Be un-selfconcious
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • work fast and try disparate directions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Present compositions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Assigned April6, due April 13:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wk3

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Create a poster diptych.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Make two posters that express different aspects of your topic. The points of view can be complementary or contrasting.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Build on your experimental compositions. Discover coincidences — both visual and language-based.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Is there a composition that could be used as a grid for one or more of the posters?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Could you combine two or more of the compositions?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Have you discovered a certain technique that you want to replicate in the posters?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Requirements:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Use a grid!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Poster must have 3 levels of hierarchy and include a heading
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • use at least 200 words of text and at least one image
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • The definition for what a "poster" is can be variable: a traditional poster? small? giant? a billboard? a building? a website? animation? a wind turbine? video? app? what is a poster for and how does a different medium or framework still do that?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Speculate what materials or processes your poster should use > is your topic direct air capture of carbon dioxide? what do we do with the resulting stored carbon so that it is sequestered? can it be used as a printing medium for a poster!? Think about the solution you've chosen from Drawdown, and how does that influece your understanding of what a poster is and how you should hypothetically make your poster.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  April 13:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wk4

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Critique
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Posters due
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Present however necessary for your poster concepts.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Turn in Final Documentation?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • include all the materials you created over the course of this project.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  reference/the past: 020210311131133 Entry & Utah Workshop 202103111331

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  utilize the triple bottom line as an effectiveness judgement

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  27th June 2021 at 4:52am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Prompt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  20th August 2021 at 12:25am
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Word Count: 215
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Source Speech

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This 1978 speech by Murray Bookchin is strikingly relevant today

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  On August 24, 1978, Murray Bookchin gave a lecture at the Toward Tomorrow Fair in Amherst, Massachusetts. Also speaking at that year’s gathering were several prominent thinkers, including R. Buckminster Fuller and Ralph Nader. In his speech, Bookchin argues against the ideology of futurism and for ecological utopianism. In the Q&A session, he points out that he is not against technology itself, he is against technocracy, and he also describes, in detail, his political vision for the future.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The speech is surprisingly relevant in today’s context: it’s as if he predicted the rise of fascist ideology and lifeboat ethics in the 21st century, and it feels like a direct rebuttal of Elon Musk-esque technocratic futurism on both the right and the left.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Because his speech is so applicable today, we decided to republish it here, making it accessible to a wider audience. It has been transcribed and edited lightly for flow, brevity, and grammar, and we have divided it into sub-sections for ease of reading. The text is published with the permission of The Bookchin Trust.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  http://unevenearth.org/2019/10/bookchin_doing_the_impossible/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  And it can be listened to here: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums741-b237-i005

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Utopian Gestures / A Sustainabilitst Rambling

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Word Count: 1572
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Lecture Nebraska

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I am a Graphic Designer, was working as such before coming to school, and thus have been approaching the concept of Sustainability through the lens of design. This lead to the question I posed myself which deals with both sustainability and design, What does sustainable graphic design look like…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I even began my thesis work this way… here I was trying to visualize the message "what does sustainable graphic design look like?" by using a vocabulary of "green" iconography. This was a fairly literal approach, and I ended up abandoning it because my interest was quickly lost, and I did not see this progressing the subject in any real way…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  While becoming frustrated with my initial directions, I continued to read and research the topic. As I would uncover new information, find morsels of data or facts I found particularly interesting, I started collecting a visual diary… Each little thing of interest I would try to visualize in some way, be it a phrase, a fact, whatever. This has resulted in a number of pages of graphics, some text driven, some image driven, all sharing the theme of sustainability.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This is a random sampling of what I have thus far… these are all just sayings or data that I came up with or came across that I couldn't go on without sharing—perhaps after further revisions and additions this may all become some sort of zine or web publication…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  These don't necessarily move the cause forward as much as I would hope either, but they are definitely down a slightly different path that the first studies shown. And as I have moved towards a more theoretical philosophy of sustainability, these studies have become fewer and farther between, replaced instead by writing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  In order to realize designs with a growing set of ideas, concepts and beliefs, I was in search of a new method. I found this in the "systems-based-design" approach. The idea being that once the data set is selected, a system of rules for its display is created, and then the design is influenced by the data, and vice versa—a synergy between the design and the information is created…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This is something we have been talking a lot about this year, and have had several visiting guests speak towards both last spring and this fall.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The more I have researched this the more I realize my visual work has to be about envisioning the information I am uncovering…Finding "systems" to help do this is good next step for me, it melds well with my thinking processes, and besides, sustainability is inherently about systems…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Each of these examples does a decent job of taking a data set, either textual entries, portfolio pieces, bands in an itunes playlist, or frequent words in a book, and displays or maps them in some systematic way…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The first visual study in my thesis work I did as part of this new approach started with this logo… The We logo was fairly new, and seemed like a step forward in the sustainable-design-arena. At about the same time Wal-Mart had a new branding campaign also with a semi-neuvo-environmental slant. With these as a starting point I continued thinking about the greenwashing of other brands across all sectors, and then thinking about existing brands that have always had an environmental or sustainable message, and how the field was becoming muddled and jumbled and filled with mixed and meaningless messages…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I ended up taking about one-hundred brand's logos. Logos were chosen at semi-random, I had some in mind already, like wholefoods, wal-mart, BP and the We campaign, while others were found by googling "sustainable companies" or things like that.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The final color was achieved by sampling all their brand colors, and then averaging them all together into a new master color… which I like to call, the greenest green.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It actually works pretty nicely this way, but it was intended to exist as a broadside, which is one of my sample pieces on the wall.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This is where I have gotten too graphically thus far, and from this point onward things will be more or less about the concepts and philosophies I am working on.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Underlying concepts: green and sustainable might not be the best words to describe sustainable design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  My Initial thoughts about how Green and Sustainable are used as adjectives like any others has actually already changed since I began this process. I have now come to the decision that Sustainability has a heft and reality to it that Green does not. Sustainability is broad, and thus capably used in a variety of situations, while Green is a remnant of the aging environmental cause. With this in mind it becomes very important to try and define what sustainability then really means…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  In my attempts to explain to myself what sustainability means, I started with common dictionary definitions. These definitions are broad and simple, and provide a non-specific idea of what the word means. They do not really provide substance—But I am concerned with the substance of sustainability, and how to apply that substance to graphic design. With the addition of some extra reading [Cradle to Cradle, the Death of Environmentalism, In The Bubble, the Viridian Design Manifesto, and more] I started to get my personal definition of sustainability down, and my version of a sustainable philosophy straight.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  An underlying theme I have found in nearly every text and work I have read is this idea of a trinity mentality towards dealing with sustainability. Different people use different terms, but true sustainability always comes down to answering Economic, Societal and Environmental needs together.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  As a Venn diagram, sweet spots begin to appear where sustainability in one realm overlaps sustainability in another… Each of these areas can be described as being sustainable in its own way, but only when each takes the other two into consideration will "true sustainability" be met. I see this diagram as "sustainability in action"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This lead to this next diagram, which is more the philosophy of sustainability rather than a working model… This describes the Mindset that gets you to the center sweet spot on the last diagram…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It results from the concept that our economy is a construct of society, and thus would not exist out side of it. likewise, we as humans, and thus out society, would not exist without the greater concept of nature, and thus are contained within it… This creates a holistic view to move forward with, once this concept is grasped, one sees that any decision made in one realm will effect the other two as well, so act accordingly!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  With these philosophies in mind, I plan on using them to influence my next round of visuals and further thinking. We are in a post-environmental world, and need to expand our thinking outside of any one realm into the others… These are the stepping stones towards my next set of "things."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  MAKING SUSTAINABLE CHOICES

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  With my personal theories and philosophies coming together, I have been spending more time attempting to answer my initial question "what does sustainable graphic design look like?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Another goal is to construct some sort of framework, at least for myself, that then allows for sustainable graphic design to happen all of the time—something applicable to my personal practice that could also be applied as an example by others…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  To do this I have been looking at several examples that set up some kind of framework…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There are checklist models like LEED for buildings and the Sustainable design checklist, where you simply go down the list and try to comply with as many things as possible… These are a less favored model for me, but valid to at least examine (the sustainable design checklist, it is almost all sacrifice driven, i hate this!)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The model for Consumer Chart takes you through the questions one might ask in a shopping process, and based on yes or no answers whether or not you would decide to purchase something… a model like this might be interesting to expand upon in sustainable terms—a map of sustainable choices.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  One last model of choice making I have found interesting is the "Oblique Strategies" deck by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, originally created to help them out of stalls in their respective music and painting studios. I can envision some sort of sustainable strategies deck, pull a card and do whatever it says to make your design "sustainable"—a random clearing house of ideas…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Lastly, I have been working on some different conceptual answers to my thesis question in hopes of finding an answer by just thinking about it. I am working on examples in each of the categories that idealize each area and show that there is not one specific answer, but a potential myriad of good answers… Running through quickly, Sustainable design could look eco-friendly, it can just keep on looking the same as any other design, it can be "progressive" or innovative in its look, or, it can not exist… this last one is especially important for me, because I think an increasingly important question everyone should be asking themselves when approaching any project is "does this need to exist?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  END: so what does sustainable graphic design look like? I'm still not completely sure, but working on it…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Valerie Casey

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  People Doing People Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Designers Accord creator.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Now at WalMart?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Vas: An Opera in Flatland

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Book Grafting

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Definition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The common language of a place.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This can be a style, a material, an inflection, a way of looking at things. It is not limited merely to architecture or language, it can be connected to culture, signs, anything.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Very fast ramping flexible peaking power generation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 11:03pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Peaking Power Plants

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    What we need is Very fast ramping flexible peaking power generation. And this will need to come from all kinds of new sources. Small, distributed sources.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Victor Margolin

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          visual communication

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6th July 2021 at 12:12am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Waiting…

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Poem

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Waiting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Waiting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          It is morning. I am waiting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Why am I no good at waiting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I want to sit, like a rock just sits,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          wait, just like a tree just waits.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          But I can't.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Waiting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Pacing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Thinking.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Staring.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Stop pacing. Just waiting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Do less in more time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Waiting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Waldorf

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Educational Model

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Ward Cunningham

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            26th July 2021 at 12:54pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Waste = Food

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            20th August 2021 at 10:11am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Earth systems are cyclical, the waste of one process feeds the next.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Major background concept for all the Cradle to Cradle ideas.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            We are all vulnerable, and you don't have to be ashamed of it

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            23rd June 2021 at 10:38am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Affirmation Aphorism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            We are perpetually dissatisfied

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6th July 2021 at 12:36am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The Dissatisfaction Game

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The Dissatisfaction Game

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            We are perpetually dissatisfied with what we have, and we are constantly idealizing everything we don't have.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Samsara

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            We don’t need new products; we need new structures that change behavior

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            14th July 2021 at 11:37pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              we have the capacity to experience any state of being at any time

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                We Invest in the Outcome

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                15th July 2021 at 10:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mental Model

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Outcome Based Thinking

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The outcome is frequently different than what we would like. And sometimes the opposite of what you would like. You invest in the outcome and you are guaranteed to have more than your share of frustration.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                related to Have-Do-Be

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                We live in a universe that is always changing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2nd July 2021 at 3:55pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                We live in a universe that is always changing, full of matter that is always moving.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                from Theoretical Physicist Lee Smolin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Related to Entropy?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  We only have eight years left

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  9th August 2021 at 2:07pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Source Web

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of climate change. How can you help?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  https://www.chrbutler.com/we-only-have-eight-years-left

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  we’re no longer talking about climate change; we are facing everything change

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  29th August 2021 at 10:15pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  According to Margaret Atwood

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wealth

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Principle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Sustainabilitist “wealth” encompasses all areas of resources (knowledge, information, water, food, etc), not just the monetary. The sustainabilitist world revolves around the fair distribution and dissemination of these values.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Web

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  26th July 2021 at 1:19pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  is this the same as Website or Websites??? or is this related to Source?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Websites

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What advances the Creative Process in General?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        15th July 2021 at 10:39pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Preliminary Course

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        How else can we do this?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What am I Actually Good At?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        18th June 2021 at 2:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What are good “Sustainabilitist Rituals”?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2nd July 2021 at 12:40am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What kinds of rituals should sustainability have? how can we use rituals to remind people to value the welfare of all life — create the kind of society in which to live that actually benefits us and allows for humans and all other life to flourish

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What comes to mind when you read the phrase “sustainable graphic design?”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          19th July 2021 at 2:36pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What comes to mind when you read the phrase “sustainable graphic design?” Is there a particular aesthetic? Is there a particular kind of client? Is there a particular visual trope or particular look or feel? How about a particular message? Do you just picture “the triple bottom line?” Is it environmentally friendly? recycled paper? What?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What do I want to sustain?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            31st August 2021 at 3:51pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            how do I answer this question?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - all life
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - a life friendly spaceship earth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - collective action
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - the commons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - permaculture farming
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - all people are created equal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - socialism not capitalism
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - the understanding of how things work
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - how everything is connected
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • - ???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What do we want from sustainability? and what does sustainability want from us?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8th July 2021 at 2:27pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Prompt Questions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What do you want to sustain?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            20th June 2021 at 10:49pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What does SciFi understand about our present that we miss?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What does sustainable Graphic Design look like?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021) Prompt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A prompt.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What does it look like? Should it matter that it looks different or the same?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ±±±±±±±±±±

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            This question continues to fascinate me. Alongside the Sustainabilitist principles, I had works that I felt fell into 4 types of "answers":

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What else are you interested in besides designing?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              What gestures have I made lately that are Utopian?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Utopian Gestures

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              What gestures have I made lately that are Utopian?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              What got you "here" is not going to get you "there"

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The thinking, the work, the energy, the ideas, the whatever... however you are at the place you are in time and space and success in the present, if you want to change and grow, it will probably take new thinking, new energy, new work.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              What I am saying is that refusing to use a wifi connection on your laptop because there aren’t free drivers helps basically nobody

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              What is a computer?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What is an open-sourcerer?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What is beautiful design anyway?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Lecture: What Is Sustainable Graphic design? (April 2021)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton writes: “To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to our flourishing. A transubstantiation of our individual ideals in a material medium.” This would then seem that however our ideals are materialized into graphic design yields “beautiful” graphic design. Botton specifically mentions "values critical to our flourishing." If we merge Botton's idea with our "all life flourishing" focused graphic design then sustainable design IS beautiful design. This doesn't imply a style or aesthetic, but instead a shared set of values. We get other criteria to help judge the goodness of a design, not purely formal, but the content, the context.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainable designers must see the non-sustainable as the less than beautiful. If your design doesn't account for the welfare of all life, whatever the external aesthetics that wrap it, your design is ugly. Edwin Datschefksi calls this “the hidden ugliness of traditional products.” Basically, the non-sustainable is (& can only be) ugly.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                So: A design is both sustainable AND beautiful when its form declares that humans and all other life should flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Molly Bawn, 1878

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How can both "Sustainable Design = Beautiful Design" AND "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" be true?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                “There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Stendhal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It's not a new idea that beauty isn't the same for everyone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                — David Hume, _Essays, Moral and Political_, 1742

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How Does a sustainabilitist account for pluralities as to what constitutes “beautiful?” How do we begin to share "all life flourishing" as an overarching socio-cultural value?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                But! If you design for the welfare of all life, it doesn't matter what the design looks like, the design will be beautiful!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What is CAPE?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CAPE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The way the web works will be increasingly about linking together disparate but specialized services; not providing a single website with all solutions pre-built or hardwired into the site itself. CAPE accepts and tries to embrace this new ecosystem.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Create Anywhere, Publish Everywhere.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                _CAPE has two basic parts._

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The first part is to API content feeds as Google is to HTML pages: Users search across multiple content sources and are empowered to reuse or display found data in any way they choose. A user defines various content sources, creates a set of search filters, previews the results and saves the final query. Queries are live-updated content feeds, and the results can be removed, remixed, or saved. Saved results can also be re-ordered. Source feeds are not limited and can include public RSS and API data as well as private content created in a Dropbox folder or files from a Jekyll GIT repository.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The second part is CAPE’s use of the search results. Each query has a “saved” and “live” results feed. Currently query result feeds are available in XML, Json, or can be passed through mustache templates for a variety of use-cases.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A blogger or editor can search for tags across multiple sources (including personal ones) and then select the relevant content for a new post with a few clicks. The results can be turned into the actual HTML file or displayed in widget format on any page. Entire websites can be created this way based on a collection of saved queries and a set of display templates.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CAPE Explained

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CAPE uses existing and standard formatting, hardware, software, and server technologies. However, the way in which these things are combined is fairly novel.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                _This is software, service, and philosophy in one._

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                As software, CAPE provides the potential for a backend to control all your content feeds — photos from Flickr or Instagram, text docs from Dropbox or Github, spreadsheets from Google Drive, even content from your inventory management system, basically anything that has an API, RSS feed, or otherwise publishes to the web (cloud) somehow can be found, captured, and reused.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Service-wise CAPE provides the option for linking together all your other services. Pick the existing products, softwares, services, etc. that already manage something — workflow tools, photo feeds, etc. — and then use what you are already familiar with to create the content for your website or even print. Instead of being a content management system, CAPE is a content curation and delivery service. (To clarify what “services” are: CMSs have modules or plugins, iOS and Android have apps, the Web has Services … (For more on this, [“There is a service for that”](https://github.com/sundaysenergy/www.sundaysenergy.com/blob/master/pages/static/service_for_that.md) contains references to many existing services providing all kinds of pre-built functionality.))

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                As a philosophy, CAPE says this: whatever you are already using for content management or creation, please continue to use it. CAPE just wants that content, and will find it, re-format it and deliver it where and how you choose. Mostly this requires thinking about what existing services do the tasks you require, what current jobs create and manage content within your office, and then how those can all be linked together in a sensical, methodical way.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How CAPE can be used / Why CAPE is useful.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CAPE is beneficial for a number of reasons.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                That CAPE is a philosophy as much of a software/hardware decision means that it is mutable, iterable, flexible, and more future-proof than many other options. CAPE allows for working fluidly within existing company/organization workflows.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Content creation tasks can be broken up by who actually deals with specific kinds of content. These sub-divided creation tasks can be relegated to tools best and/or only suited to the specific tasks. This makes a creator/editor’s tasks simpler as new workflows, tools, concepts, etc. aren’t necessary. This also means that products and/or services best used for a specific medium can be used making each piece of a site — images, text, HTML, video, CSS, JS, whatever — hosted, served, managed, etc. in the most effective possible way.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Breaking down conceptually the way that the content is created, and then putting it back together at your discretion allows for a number of things traditional CMS driven sites don't easily permit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Ease of Hosting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sites built on the CAPE philosophy are simpler, smaller, leaner, and faster to host. The “site” itself is made up of just a few HTML, CSS, JS, and media files as the majority of the content is being drawn in from elsewhere. Also, when new “pages” or “content” are created, they are actually turned into static HTML pages that load quickly and reliably. The entire site (excluding the third party services) can be hosted on a Content Delivery Network. A CDN provides redundancy, speed, and reliability beyond that of regular hosting models for PHP/SQL driven sites.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Speed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CAPE doesn’t power a site like a traditional CMS does, it generates a site. CAPE lives in the background, listening for changes in feeds, services, or other content libraries. When it notices a change or new content CAPE creates any new pages, lists, menus, etc., corresponding to that change, update, or addition.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                If you need to load a page, the page is just there for loading, the server doesn’t need to ask a SQL database (or anything else) for said content and have PHP or another script/language compile the content into an HTML file. Also, because of the CDN possibilities, the closest, least-loaded server to a visitor can be used to serve the files, creating another speed gain.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Future-Proofness.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CAPE provides a way to link, display, feed, and control content from elsewhere. It does this using simple JS, HTML, CSS, and a collection of processing software snippets. Individually, these are all base-level, foundation technologies for the construction of web-pages. This is unlikely to change in the near future.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Because CAPE doesn't actually manage any content itself, only finds and displays content from elsewhere, your content can be migrated, moved, edited, etc. from whatever is the current best choice. This means that CAPE is able to evolve and flex as technologies advance, improve, or change all together. Being a philosophy more than a software allows for adaptability to be key.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Additional “Why CAPE?” Arguments

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                _Some of these points reiterate the ones above, but are helpful to explain more specific benefits, or the same benefits in greater detail._

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Performance

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Content rarely changes. It is a complete waste of resources to load a database and software to handle the processing it into the final html markup. It's difficult to get higher performance than serving static files. Dynamic content can be handled with various third party javascript libraries. Ever get a notice from your host that your website is using too many resources? CPU or Memory issues will be gone forever when your site is statically cached.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Data Protection

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Own your content. If you use a blogging service like Tumblr you should have a backup of all your posts. Do you? CAPE accepts various sources of information and stores them in plain text files. They are easy to edit anywhere and can be published everywhere.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Security

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Serving static HTML is inherently safe. No server side scripts to get attacked, or abused. Anytime your site is being dynamically generated that software must be updated regularly or you are at risk for security vulnerabilities.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Focus on the content

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Interfaces change, content remains. It's too difficult to have layout specific information in the content if you want to display the content in more than one place. The content needs to be **presentation agnostic**. One of the greatest things about the Web is its universality. Web-enabled devices are everywhere. Your content should be accessible from any device. A Content Management System should focus on **managing content** not displaying it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Responsive Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The web is responsive by nature. Responsive design gets really difficult to accomplish when there are display rules mixed into the content. As it is impossible to test for all the possibilities we must try to design, code, and content-create for the flexibility and the unknown. By treating content as its own layer, removed from the presentation, we are better able to do this.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Versatility

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Desktop applications, web applications, mobile applications. All devices can by sources of content. Why limit yourself to creating content in/on a single place/software focused toward a single device/context.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Don’t Repeat Yourself / Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of information — all kinds of information. To reinvent the wheel is to duplicate a basic method that has already been created or optimized by others. CAPE helps website users and managers avoid these pitfalls.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The problems with content management systems

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Complexity and Cost

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Using Drupal, Wordpress, or most other CMSs requires software to be running on a server to dynamically build each page request. Every time a user visits a page, the server has to build that page first. Every time. Every single time. The software that does this builds each page dynamically, and requires constant updates and has a lot of “moving parts.” The cost to keep all of those parts moving all the time is high. Therefore, the correlating cost to properly host a website like this is much more expensive than that of hosting static site.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Constraints on Content Creation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                With a typical CMS, content can only be created via that website. The method for adding content was designed to be like a “desktop” type device that was connected to the internet. This approach was fine when everyone did everything on a desktop computer. But now content creators have all kinds of devices they like to use for content creation. A good example is the iPad. It’s clumsy editing content via a website, and it's a much nicer experience using a native app that is a content editor.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Emphasis on WYSIWYG

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editors are still the common means of editing content in most CMSs. Unfortunately, while they appear useful, they are mostly inefficient and ineffective. WYSIWYG editors created bloated content that contains not just the actual content, but a variety of presentational markup. This both makes the site slower to load and harder to reuse content in other places. It also can interfere with main styles and templates created for display. WYSIWYG works fine on your personal blog, but it isn’t optimal for dynamic, flexible, and responsive websites.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CAPE is more interested in WYSIWYM, or “What You See Is What You Mean.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                From wikipedia:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In a WYSIWYM editor, the user writes the contents in a structured way, marking the content according to its meaning, its significance in the document, leaving its final appearance up to one or more separately WYSIWYG-authored style sheets. For example, in a WYSIWYM document a human being manually marks text as the title of the document, the name of a section, or the name of an author; this would in turn allow one element, such as section headings, to be rendered as large bold text in one style sheet, or as red center justified text in another, without further human intervention. This requires the semantic structure of the document to be decided on before writing it.[‡](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This allows for CAPE sites to have textual, image, video, and whatever other content separated from each other allowing a much easier chance for reuse, repurposing, and optimized management dependent on the content or media type. The content then only displays in the ways you have asked or told it to.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CMSs are Slow and Complicated

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                You’ll only be as good as the mean of those around you. The Drupal community is home to many semi-developer freelancers. Drupal enables a ton of functionality without being a programmer. Need some added functionality? There is more than likely a module for that. A module that could have been written for a specific job and the maintainer is no longer getting paid to work on it. Wordpress has a similar community and thus a similar set of problems. CAPE avoids this by interfacing with standard, up-kept tools. If a new, better tool comes along (or better maintained tool), it can be swapped in for the old one.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CMSs are good for two main groups

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Small scale site builders who can leverage the power of SQL Views, Fields, and the rich module ecosystem (in Drupal, or the general plugin system of Wordpress) but aren't building sites complex enough to land them in “maintenance hell.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Large organizations with small development teams that need a complex content/user model. Drupal does a good job of content modeling, revisions, localization, and has a decent plugin system. It also is useful in managing a large user base. Wordpress does not easily handle overly complex content models, so should be avoided here anyway. Some other CMSs besides Drupal can handle the complex side of things as well.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Glossary

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • API: Application Programming Interface
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • CAPE: Create Anywhere, Publish Everywhere
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • CDN: Content Delivery Network
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • CMS: Content Management System
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets (contains layout and design instructions)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • HTML: HyperText Markup Language (the basic structural code of web pages)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • JS: Javascript
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • JQuery: A javascript library of pre-built functions to help simplify and extend basic behaviors for the web.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • WYSIWYG: What you see is what you get
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • WYSIWYM: What you see is what you mean

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This lecture is called "What is sustainable graphic design?" I'm attempting to curate a space where visual designing and sustainability overlap meaningfully. I'll walk us through some theories and a few case-studies dealing with "what Sustainable Aesthetics might look like."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Quick background

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In my twenty year role as graphic designer I've designed books, album covers, magazines, logos, websites, and built digital tools. Regardless of final forms, if its client-based or self-initiated, I treat all my designs as opportunities for intellectual inquiry and self-expression.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The sustainabilitist principles

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ is a modular manifesto; a collection of the ways of thinking to sustainably design as I considered them in 2009. The goal: create an object whose form embodied the principles it conveyed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    _The Sustainabilitist Principles_ started out as the books on my desk, I was wondering where "sustainable designing" lay within them… mapping connections between ideas… writing about repeating principles… the interconnections over time and space of similar ideals… how to clarify access to the ideas for the next designer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The final output of this direction brought necessary pieces together in an intentional, ephemeral form for an exhibition. I did not need to make another book or a poster series to explain these principles: the objects themselves could do it if I put them together correctly! The books were my actual books. The screen printed definitions, they were printed on the front matter of found paperback novels. The interconnecting embroidery floss was used in the longest possible pieces to maximize reuse of the thread afterward.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This was what I felt was my first successful piece of "sustainable graphic design." It was also my final "answer" to a question in grad school: "What does Sustainable Graphic Design look like?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. What does SGD look like?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This question continues to fascinate me. Alongside the Sustainabilitist principles, I had works that I felt fell into 3 types "answers" — and then a 4th wild card...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    - Sustainable Graphic Design Looks The Same - Good design is good design. If you pick the right materials or processes sustainable design doesn't need to look or be any different. - Sustainable Graphic Design Looks Eco-Friendly - Clearly wearing one's environmental and social activism on one's sleeve. Renewable energy, plant motifs, brown paper, natural dyes, etc. - Sustainable Graphic Design Looks Innovative - Sustainability brings with it new ways of thinking, new tools, new technology; and so visuals should be new and innovative too… - AND, Sustainable Graphic Design Does Not Exist!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Sustainable Design does not exist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "Sustainable design does not exist" was at first pessimistic. Is design all just trash? does design create waste period, so nothing is sustainable? Anything we make is unmaking so much else; so all design is unsustainable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    But! "Sustainable design does not exist" came to signify an alternative; it didn't exist because it was ephemeral! because it reused existing objects in a new way! that it left no trace! that it was part of some continuous vernacular process! suddenly this was a prompt for new works; new questions; new directions! A useful constraint for future work.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Define Sustainability & Define Sustainabilitists

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    When I talk about sustainability, I'm talking about these mindsets.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    - The triple bottom line - separate but additive; each space has potential for sustainability, but you can focus on one without the others. - Nested: Economy within Society within Nature - holistic; what buckminster fuller was talking about when he said we live on "spaceship earth" - If you frame everything this way, you can't accidentally leave out a kind of sustainability.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Defining Sustainable Graphic Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In the 2013 book Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability, John Ehrenfeld writes “The key to doing something about sustainability is that you first have to say what it is that you want to sustain.” To define sustainable graphic design we must first define what it is we are sustaining.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    To define sustainable graphic design we must first define what it is we are sustaining.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sustainable graphic design is design in service of what we want to sustain — how do you decide what's worth sustaining? (because, if we pick the wrong thing, say we want to sustain the status quo, then that is what sustainable graphic design is — hmmm!?).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ehrenfeld wants to sustain “that all humans and other life should flourish.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Designer Bruce Mau has a similar description for the goals of _Massive Change_: “Our project is the welfare of _all life_ as a practical objective.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This is what we'll use as our definition of Sustainable Graphic Design for the remainder of the talk: Sustainable graphic design is “graphic design in support of all life flourishing,” or, “graphic design for the welfare of all life.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Sustainable Graphic Design is DIFFERENT

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sustainable Graphic Design defined this way is _different_ than "regular," cultural production. All life flourishing is not the traditional goal of business, culture, and design.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Throughout western art and design history new or “different” thinking and tools correlate with new aesthetic outcomes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sustainability brings with it all manner of new technologies, new social structures, new tools. Should Sustainable graphic design then carry with it additional new forms and aesthetics?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. An example: Selecting a font

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Should a font’s appearance matter as much as the energy and material and social ills it saves? Is selecting a font that uses minimal ink the best way to select a font? Would a font that is condensed, that uses up less space (saving paper over a print run; exposure to chemicals to the printer) be better? Can we combine the these? The thinest, most condensed, lightest ink coverage font is the most sustainable? This can easily be taken absurd lengths. This might be "Critical Design," critiquing the status quo; it tackles resultant outcomes from a resource perspective; but does it embrace “the welfare of all life?” Making choices around resource use might make “less bad” graphic design, does it make for _sustainable_ graphic design? (Experimental letterforms made using 000letter <http://kielm.land/>).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. SGD looks Ideological & Critical (& Beautiful)?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    — Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, _Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects_

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.” If our world view is “the welfare of all life,” how does that shift what and how we graphic design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are proponents of “critical design,” design that “provides a critique of the prevailing situation through designs that embody alternative social, cultural, technical, or economic values.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sustainable graphic design is not just design that helps people and our planet, but design that is also critical of existing social, cultural, technical, AND economic structures; since many of these things are harming all life, not helping them to flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We judge graphic design on whether or not it is formally “good.” But, we use visual criteria for "formal goodness" or "beauty" are part of the systems we must be critical of.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Contemporary formal goodness evolved from late 19th through mid-20th centuries western art traditions.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Mid-century modernism is so embedded in culture that the "rules" of graphic designing are just the "rules" of modernism.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    — Jerome Harris

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The formal concepts from Modernist Capitalism do not lead to all life flourishing (it's usually the opposite!).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We need new criteria for what formal goodness or "beauty" now are for Sustainable visual output!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Example: Green Acres

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    _Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses, and Abandoned Lots_ was a book I worked on with my friend and curator Sue Spaid, for the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, OH. Green Acres featured artists using farming as their art practice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The goal: make the resultant book "sustainable." These were sustainability focused artists, how could I represent their ecological inventiveness in a printed book? The things that made the production of this book "sustainable" were that it was printed on demand, and used recycled, unbleached paper.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Visually, the book's design was meant to be _critical design_; the juxtaposition of small art farm graphics vs. giant commercial farm references via a constrained square grid and the aerial commercial farmland photography.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    While the book intends to say something different, it conforms to common standards of "good" modernist layout. Other than a minor production method improvement, it's the same … ! Is it Sustainable Graphic Design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. A Descent Down the black hole that is Beauty

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton writes: “To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to our flourishing. A transubstantiation of our individual ideals in a material medium.” This would then seem that However our ideals are materialized into graphic design yields “beautiful” graphic design.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This then implies that Sustainable designers must see the non-sustainable as the less than beautiful. Edwin Datschefksi calls this “the hidden ugliness of traditional products.”‡8 Basically, the non-sustainable is (& can only be) ugly.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Beauty will align with your values. A design is both sustainable AND beautiful when its form declares that humans and all other life should flourish. Is there a style, aesthetic, or form says this?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to our flourishing. A transubstantiation of our individual ideals in material medium.“
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    — Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Alain de Botton thinks that Beauty's perception aligns with one's values. However our ideals are materialized into graphic design yields “beautiful” graphic design.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sustainable design’s form declares “humans & all life should flourish.” / If those are the values we want to align with, then beautiful design’s form declares “humans & all life should flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A design is both sustainable AND beautiful when its form declares that humans and all other life should flourish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sustainable Design = Beautiful Design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    If your design doesn't account for the welfare of all life, whatever the external aesthetics that wrap it, your design is ugly. Edwin Datschefksi calls this “the hidden ugliness of traditional products.” — You are missing a component of holistic "beauty."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Molly Bawn, 1878

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    How can both "Sustainable Design = Beautiful Design" AND "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" be true?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    How Does a sustainabilitist account for pluralities as to what constitutes “beautiful?”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “there are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    — Stendhal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    It's not a new idea that beauty isn't the same for everyone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    — David Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Beauty = intrinsic value. What's valuable to you!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Beauty = Value

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Value = Good Ethics

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Good Ethics = All Life Flourishing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    What is a good ethical thing that you value? if we achieve that, it doesn't matter what it looks like, it will be beautiful!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    When your graphic design Makes tangible, makes understandable something about sustainability or climate change, then it is signaling sustainably.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This is doable no matter the project; no matter the prompt. There are myriad aspects of climate change and sustainability one might signal. Each in their tiny part we can think of as contributing to "all life flourishing."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This is another opportunity to find the "context" for which "beauty" becomes apparent in a design without resorting to superficial, external styling.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Here are some Signs Signaling Sustainability

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Amager Bakke Vapor Ring

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A concept that was never made; but that sent me down this direction: Copenhagen waste to energy plant is so clean its exhaust stack puffs only CO2 and water vapor. Upon capturing 1 ton of CO2, exhausts it as a smoke ring. Help you visualize this otherwise intangible!? (Bjarke Ingels Group)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Reverberation Crosswalks

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    _Reverberation Crosswalks_ are fun, brightly colored crosswalks. Just paint on cement and asphalt they still signal a sustainable vector forward. The neighborhood around this intersection is now more walkable. You can't not notice the crosswalks. They contribute to life flourishing in the city. This concept is cheap; fast; easily replicated; can be customized for region, culture, available materials, etc. (Graham Coreil Allen)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Solar.LowTechMagazine.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Low Tech Magazine's solar powered website signals how we might visualize energy usage; how we might enable new systems of powering our tools; questions if we really need constant connection; and how aesthetic choices correlate to physical resources even in the digital sphere. (Kris De Decker & Marie Otsuka)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. DC High Water Mark Project

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The DC water mark project visualizes increased flooding and water level rise. The water level rings articulate "oh shit, this place might be underwater pretty frequently given our current projected future!" By signaling this, perhaps we can act accordingly and redirect our present towards a future where that is no longer true. Without _seeing_ your house or office or favorite park area submerged, even symbolically, you cannot envision an alternative. (Curry J. Hackett / Wayside Studio)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Tattfoo Tan, *S.O.S. Steward*

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Enrolled in various courses and acquired certification for sustainable/green knowledge. To flaunt new found titles, created merit patches to be worn on gray coveralls during events and gardening sessions. <http://tattfoo.com/sos/SOSGreenStewardship.html>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. FreshPress Paper

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Prairie grass and agricultural waste for new paper fiber sources! These papers end up being very low carbon, or even carbon negative, in their footprints. (Eric Benson)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Bike Pool Noodle Hack

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Foam pool noodle rubber banded to a bike rack... That's real utilitarian graphic design. <https://www.are.na/block/4299163>

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Cradle To Cradle

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The cradle to cradle books are signs signaling sustainability. C2C is a "technical" nutrient – the entire book is made to be taken back into a production process – the pages are plastic, the ink reclaimable. The Upcycle is instead a biological nutrient, made to decompose and return to the cycles of nature. Paper, ink, binding, is all made to biodegrade…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Conclusion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    What does sustainable graphic design look like? it doesn't matter.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I used to be hung up on the visual aesthetics. I wanted sustainable things to LOOK DIFFERENT to have their own aesthetic… but what I've learned is that that doesn't matter. The way things look

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I'll leave you with two more example from my own work. These are ways to make the pieces more sustainable based on my values …

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Example: MICA Grad Zine

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    All of the image and typographic resources are open source or public domain. The printing structure was designed to minimize printing waste – the front and back of this "poster" are printed all as one plate, so the press sheet goes through the press once, then is flipped over, and goes through the press again, voila. This means front and back of the pages were able to all be printed with one plate per color instead of two or more… All of these ideas together, do they add up to a beautiful design? a sustainable design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. A Final Example: Ecovention Europe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Fast forward from Green Acres. Sue Spaid, now living in Belgium, has a new exhibition opportunity: _Ecovention Europe_, ecologically inventive artists working in Europe, and there is another book.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In the interim since _Green Acres_, I heard Sara de Bondt discuss the _Radical Nature_ catalog designed for the Barbican in London. De Bondt's studio wrote a sustainable printing manifesto as part of the research for the catalog's production.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    De Bondt's "manifesto" got me thinking about what other ways design decisions could be made: How might I re-examine the design choices of _Green Acres_ For _Ecovention Europe_? Could I improve the sustainability (and the sustainable aesthetics)?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    One of the items in De Bondt's printing manifesto is "use less ink." This meant selecting colors more carefully.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    No color adds up to more that 100% ink coverage. (_Ecovention Europe_ uses CMYK: and color palette swatches start at 100% pure C, M, Y, or K, and then are mixed in equal percentages to keep 100% or less total coverage: 50% + 50%; 33% + 33% + 33%; etc.). This resulted in a color palette that was fairly special for this book. Is that a form of sustainable beauty? critical design?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Reducing ink led to bitmapped city maps as the decorative section markers. The appearance of a filled area is kept (relating back to a _Green Acres_ design choice), but less ink is used comparatively.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Text columns in _Green Acres_ ended at full paragraphs breaks to make editing easier. This gave a formally-nice rhythm to text columns, but it was an inefficient use of space. With _Ecovention Europe_, I reduced this space by running all the text the full column heights. This had the secondary benefit of minimizing superfluous decoration: In _Green Acres_, superficial decorative elements filled those blanks left by text columns ending mid-page.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I even tried to reduce decision making through reuse. The grid for _Green Acres_ had a lot of conceptual reasoning invested into it, and so I reused the page templates, type choices, grid setup, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    As a conceptual exercise, this was great. But, did it make much of a difference? How could this be done differently and improved upon again next time? Is there an alternative to making this book at all? (Should this exist? I didn’t ask that question before we began!)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. SOME FINAL SLIDE WITH A QUESTION OR WHATEVER

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    of course your questions, but here's a google doc, what are your values???

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Design critic Bruce Sterling outlines three criteria for objects worth making, owning, and keeping:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    - Beautiful Things - Sentimental Things - Utilitarian Things

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. It is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular place in which it occurs.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    — Christopher Alexander

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The qualities that promote the welfare of all life are, like the quality without a name, ineffable. And like the quality without a name, aesthetics that correspond with all life flourishing will shift and change with different contexts.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        is this similar to What is an open-sourcerer??

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What is this?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        meta

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        If you come across this "site"? you might ask, what is this? Well, it is a "digital garden" to use the popular current term. Its sort of a ZettleKasten. It is mostly a place where questions are posed, though almost never answered. Use this for prompts of your own; use this as a jumping off place.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What Makes This Utopian?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Pragmatic Utopian Questions Utopian Gestures

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A question to ask myself whenever I make any action?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          How does one answer this?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          IS the goal to answer this question? or is it to debate the outcomes, or is it just that there are Future Possibles to be directed towards?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What makes up a tetrad?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Marshall McLuhan's tetrads:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • obsolesce
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • retrieve
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • enhance or amplify
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • reverse into

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Eric McLuhan mentions that the tetrads aren't hierarchical, they are merely 4 things to think about in terms of any medium, media, technology. But, in documenting them as a list you suffer from Accidental Hierarchy.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What Messages Should You Promote?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What potential future does this direct you towards?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What resolution to work in

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • How do you know what Resolution you should be working in with your images or documents?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • does it matter?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • is it dependent on your Workflow?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • is it dependent on whatever end medium you are outputting too?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • what about when you are outputting to multiple mediums?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            How to decide what is beautiful?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The work was meant to just be “good graphic design” — that it should look like other design, yet be more “good” in that it also embraced various aspects of sustainability.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Again and again in green and sustainable design projects, the work wears its heart too much on its sleeve: it looks too eco-friendly and unrefined.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            / work that avoided looking specifically reused, energy-efficient, or “green.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What the fuck is wrong with me

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What Ties These Works Together?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What to do about including images?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Should images be their own tiddlers that are then transcluded? are images additional fields? Is there a difference between when an image is meta-data versus when the image IS the data?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            For instance:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What to write for Impakter?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Prompts for Impakter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Should I just pitch them the "what is sustainable graphic design" series? its the same, its about materials, its about messages, its about different signifiers, its about the clients, whatever it might be, each of these is a different short "essay"?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            How about a series on What Sustainable Graphic Design Looks Like?? I could start with the sort of what things are easy — Sustainable Graphic Design is the Same » like, okay, do what you do, but do all these little things that are low hanging fruit; there are already so many resources and write ups about picking printers, paper, ink, processes, etc. Oh, you work digitally, well these companies offset the carbon of their servers and systems... Then it can go up in levels, like okay, how can you rethink communication practices? Architecture and industrial design draw a lot on biomimicry, what can Graphic Design do? are there new materials or new ideas we can come up with... There are already things like Lean and/or Six Sigma that try to make factory production more efficient of time and materials, the basics of this can

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Sustainable Graphic Design might LOOK eco-friendly, is that a problem? are there other things it could signal instead? Should sustainable design look innovative or avant garde in some way? What if it really just doesn't exist, this could be pessimistic, like man we're wasting our time just go be a farmer or plastic recycler or something, or hey, how can we dematerialize everything and make all design waste food for other projects!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            It is easy to find help thinking about paper and ink, and more and more thinking about offsets for digital projects... but there is still little about other ways of doing and thinking visual communication design... Maybe starting there – here's the basics that you can find in more detail already just about anywhere you'd look... but here are some other things to cconsider... and then those "other things" are their own posts?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Are there messages you should do/not do? are there visual languages you should use/not use? are there clients you should work with/not work with? Where do other ideas like "social design" fit into this? Transition from human-centered to earth-centered? life-centered? Bruce mau said we need to design for the welfare of ALL LIFE, that was already 15 years ago; which graphic designers are designing for all life? We often make ephemeral things – ads, instagram stories, websites, books for things in a certain time and space (I'm working on a booklet for a graduate school right now, we're trying to figure out how to make it more useful for longer and easier to replace only the bits and pieces that need replacing when it does have to be updated) … Are there materials you could help invent? What other ways are there to signal sustainability in any project!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I'm terrible at this in most of my practice — I have teaching where I talk about this to my students and try to get them to do it, but my few client projects are mostly status quo ones; so I am writing this partially to force myself to fully adopt these things moving forward.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The last thing to think about is that hey, maybe being a visual designer for visual design's sake isn't really important — can you take your skills to some other kind of work or mission? Like a writer that ends up becoming a good lawyer or good labor organizer, writing well allows them to do their "work" better, but it isn't the "title" of the work — can "graphic design" let you do everything else related to tackling climate change better???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Can you align your practice and projects with one (or several) of the UN SDGs? or Project Drawdown's "Solutions"?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Ink that draws in carbon to become black over time!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            How to handle image attribution > should I think of these as stand alone short blurbs with 1 main image? or a visual essay of sorts?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Do they want to help generate the direction of this?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            What's the Ancient Greek Word for Procrastination?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Big Ideas Pedagogy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Schematic Representation of the Educational Process at the BauHaus

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Code? Motion? Systems? Type? Color? Society? Power? how to replace the BauHaus ideas/ideals/materials with contemporary ones?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When you invent the ship

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Attributed to Paul Virilio

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect). - Notebook, 1904

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Mark Twain

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Who said eco-friendly needs to look eco-friendly?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  why can't I just do a thing and then be done?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Why do I think that SGD is somehow different that regular GD?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Why is this important to me? what is the hang up on the differences between "sustainable" design's look and feel and "regular" design's?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why don't I just do videos like this?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Okay, so tony fry just records himself talking about a topic; minorly edits it with some visual examples; I can do this!? I have plenty of goofy things I've done before and written about, why not just make them videos!? how about my lectures, can I research them a bit better and then just record them!?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why E O Wilson is wrong about how to save the Earth

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A response to Half of the Earth must be preserved for nature > a really wonderful response.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    By Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    why go solar?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    25th June 2021 at 12:49am
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why should we go fully solar? is this the right choice? how else can we explore this?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why I’m a communist — and why you should be, too

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    14th July 2021 at 11:24pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The liberal, whether of a progressive or conservative sort, believes that social problems largely derive from poor individual morals.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Communism is the critique and the antidote to capitalism, with all its problems, including those of social and cultural division.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A liberal believes that capitalism can be humanized. They use a phrase like “crony capitalism” to suggest that capitalism is only bad when bad people are capitalists. A socialist is skeptical about this. A communist doesn’t believe it at all.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A communist is a socialist, but a socialist is not necessarily a communist. A communist believes that socialism is a historical phase that precedes communism and follows capitalism. Socialism is that system where the state is the full or partial owner of all property. Communism is the collective ownership of all property.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In a capitalist economy, we become the servants of a small class of capitalists.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The progressive liberal believes that if we encourage business owners to be better people, this exploitation will not occur. But the communist believes that the exploitation is inevitable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    we also know that we have built this abundance at the cost of environmental devastation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why is the Utopian Important?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18th June 2021 at 2:11pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    FutureCone note Pragmatic Utopian Questions Utopian Gestures

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    So doing these things in different ways, it IS important. It shows another way forward, or potentially MANY other ways forward. If we go back to this future speculation diagram, (show the FutureCone), then we see that as potential futures spread out, if we start aiming way outside of the probable, way further out into possible, or even impossible, we start to affect WHAT IS POSSIBLE. So, thinking through these things in whatever utopian lenses you have HELPS everyone else... ???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why is this other aspect, a more personal approach, important over the industry as a whole

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Re: Kristian Bjørnard's A thought while I was gardening:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Design as a personal, ideological, or political action is important and useful; design as an industry is not.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Designing, like writing, can help to explain or illuminate or clarify a position. In this context, that is what I am referring to: the power of design to make more clear, more understandable, more impactful one's actions or ideologies.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I would prefer that this is what students take away from design schooling: Design is a medium for self-expression and intellectual inquiry. The same things you might learn in a design classroom around how to, based on your contexts, your way of seeing or experiencing the world, can still be turned onto industry at large, sure. But knowing how to do "status quo" designing, I mean, what is the use of that!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    https://www.are.na/block/7620741

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Is this usefully resaid as Doing Design is Important; Being a Designer is not.??

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why make this stuff?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why should we develop self-control and miss out on a small reward here and now?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    JOMO note Prompt Quote The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Why so empty?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    21st August 2021 at 10:45pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Copied from https://mike-burns.com/gone.html – by Mike Burns

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    For years — since approximately 1999 — I've had a Web site and, in general, been enthusiastic about the Web. I posted links to Del.icio.us, events to Upcoming, photos to Flickr; each of those services were great at decentralization and integration, and I loved them for that.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Web has changed, of course. It'd be strange if it hadn't. Those services were bought and killed, along with their data. Flickr still exists but focuses on being a destination instead of integration. The Web grew up, cut its hair, got a job. Hey, so did I. The Web grew excited about centralization, ownership, silos, user accounts. (Hey — I didn't!)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Stop me if you know this one: the Web exploded in popularity. That's rad. What once seemed like a few people reading a thing, and what once seemed like a relatively small group of nerds putting high effort into content, is now everyone, all the time, shouting into the ephemeral, manufactured fog.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Previously: I'd post something, my friends would see it, maybe a few strangers would stumble onto it, it'd get discussed in IRC channels, mailing lists, other blogs, and there it would remain, a part of the library of documents that makes up the Web. As it aged, more people would trip across it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Now: if I post, it affects my SEO. Mostly strangers see it. As it ages, fewer people see it. Do I post to my Web site, to Twitter, to Tumblr, to Facebook, to the silo of the week? Which audience is appropriate? In which circles will it affect my reputation, and in which direction? Will the governments of the world care?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This isn't the Web I signed up for, and my Web site no longer has relevancy to the current Web.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Everything here is supposed to be public domain or creative commons.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Will Holman

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        People Doing People Things Personal Friend

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Architect, Maker, All around good person. Husband to Amanda Buck

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Poem
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I do not know 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What wisdom is—
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          But if I knew,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          It might be a blue shadow
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Where some dumb thing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          That never weeps
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Creeps away to die.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I do not know
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          What wisdom is—
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          But if I knew
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          It might be a blue shadow.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Wisdom might be trees.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Wisdom is a very beautiful word

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Wisdom is a very beautiful word for a set of qualities of character that enable us to face reality with serenity, good humour, kindness and resilience. Crucially, nobody is ever born wise. It takes years of experience, advice and learning from our mistakes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          With what level of Hypocrisy are you comfortable living?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Design Studio Federation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A design studio? A federation of various designers, writers, photographers, and more.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            An old and revived idea of Kristian Bjørnard

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            WK1 020210311151503 Entry

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Research & Collection

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Collect ideas and references from the reading; Collect visuals from recommended sources; Collect other information as needed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Deliverables: slideshow with bibliography of sources

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Read Through Project Drawdown's table of solutions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Choose a solution that interests you.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Skim across the solutions, and once you pick one that interests you, please read your chosen section carefully.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • What else can you then go and find about this solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • where is it done? who is doing it? is this pragmatic today? what new opportunities does this create? what changes in society/culture are required? what new thinking is necessary? what does this extend or enhance? what else does this amputate or deprecate?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Create a typology study:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Make a list of 10 key words that describe your solution, or that you find otherwise important or related.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Find 3 aphorisms or quotes that describe something about the solution beyond what's on Project Drawdown's site.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Look at free/libre/opensource/creative commons/public domain resources and collect images, illustrations, diagrams, patterns, etc that you think can illustrate the chosen solution.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • What literal objects represent your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • What metaphors apply to your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • What possible allusions can you make in design, art, architecture, literature, history, anthropology, economics, etc, to your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • What personal influences and interests would you like to combine with your solution?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Present your research and typology collections as a PDF slide show.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • To Include: your drawdown solution selection, your words, your found aphorisms or quotes, and your image research.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • The last page should be a bibliography of your sources.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Formal experimentation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            An experimental, expressive graphic exploration that responds to and expands on your selected

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Based on your research and collecting from WK1, please create 20 experimental compositions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Make 20 square collages using whatever tools work for you.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Explore the form-making potential of the words, aphorisms, and images you have gathered by manipulating type and image.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Consider both analog and digital manipulation of letterforms and images.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • How does the meaning of words change if you use a different typeface?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • How do the compositions communicate your specific interpretation of the topic?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • How can you use type and image to communicate spatial relationships and environments? Consider shadow, plane, perspective, overlay and depth.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Go wild with experimentation! What you can do to alter an image or typeface?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Abstract, make it modular, texturize, pattern, cut, tear, float, fold, frame, mask, project, adorn, alter...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • These are not precious
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Be un-selfconcious
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • work fast and try disparate directions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Present compositions

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Create a poster diptych.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Make two posters that express different aspects of your topic. The points of view can be complementary or contrasting.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Build on your experimental compositions. Discover coincidences — both visual and language-based.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Is there a composition that could be used as a grid for one or more of the posters?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Could you combine two or more of the compositions?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Have you discovered a certain technique that you want to replicate in the posters?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Requirements:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Use a grid!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Poster must have 3 levels of hierarchy and include a heading
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • use at least 200 words of text and at least one image
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • The definition for what a "poster" is can be variable: a traditional poster? small? giant? a billboard? a building? a website? animation? a wind turbine? video? app? what is a poster for and how does a different medium or framework still do that?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Speculate what materials or processes your poster should use > is your topic direct air capture of carbon dioxide? what do we do with the resulting stored carbon so that it is sequestered? can it be used as a printing medium for a poster!? Think about the solution you've chosen from Drawdown, and how does that influece your understanding of what a poster is and how you should hypothetically make your poster.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Critique
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Posters due
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Present however necessary for your poster concepts.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Turn in Final Documentation?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • include all the materials you created over the course of this project.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                How you get from input to output.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Worrying About Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Auden Schendler

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Everybody’s going carbon neutral these days, from the big boys — Amazon, Microsoft, Unilever, Starbucks, Jetblue — to your favorite outdoor brand, even ski resorts. Probably your neighborhood coffee roaster, too.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What’s not to like? Becoming carbon neutral means cutting greenhouse gas emissions as much as you can, then offsetting what you can’t avoid with measures like tree planting. Seems admirable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Well, not exactly. Carbon neutrality doesn’t achieve any sort of systemic change. A coal-powered business could be entirely carbon neutral as long it stops some landfill gas in Malaysia from entering the atmosphere equal to the emissions it’s still releasing. American fossil fuel dependence would remain intact, and planet-warming emissions would continue to rise. The only way to fix that is through politics, policymakers and legislation. But distressingly, most businesses don’t want to play in that arena.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Instead, they’re doing exactly what the fossil fuel industry wants: staying in their lane, accepting some blame for a global problem and maintaining the dominance of fossil fuels. They’re well intentioned, sure, but also clueless, even complicit.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Waste Vegetable Oil

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    What You See Is What You Get

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A trope of graphical interfaces particularly for HTML/CSS — you get a window or tool to visually move things around and the program tries its best to write the functional code you need to do that... Usually results in dirty code. Code that contains a hard to reuse amalgam of semantic and structural content and visual design

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    As opposed to What you see is what you get

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    What You See Is What You Mean

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      xml or XML. eXtensible Markup Language. Useful data format, works like HTML, but lets you declare whatever semantic tag names you need/desire. Works well as a markup language for design templates. Makes sense. Good balance of human and machine friendliness.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Xubuntu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        23rd June 2021 at 5:05pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Xubuntu is basically Ubuntu with XFCE as the GUI instead of GNOME

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        yaml or YAML. YAML Aint Markup Language.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A semi human friendly data format.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          You can't compare your family to others or you will drive yourself nuts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18th June 2021 at 11:04pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          No One Is Perfect

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            You can’t know everything

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Teaching Philosophy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Circumstances for making are constantly changing — equipment, knowledge, materials, and other Constraints are different from scenario-to-scenario and from year-to-year (or lately, on places like the web, week-to-week or even day-to-day). A Good Teacher acknowledges they won’t be able to answer every question, keep up with every new direction, understand every tool, or know every available solution. This is fine. A good teacher is transparent when ignorant, and offers avenues for exploration or further help from elsewhere (perhaps another colleague, the right book from the library, a lead from social or art history, or a well-crafted google search). Being a professional isn’t about knowing everything, it’s about remembering how to find and ask for help.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            And! But! Everything Is Connected

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            You don't have to keep around old solutions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10th August 2021 at 11:42pm
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            If something got decided one day just because it needed to get decided that day, who cares, who don't have to maintain other people's rash discussions or pragmatic short term solutions... why did it get chosen in the first place?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Robert M. Pirsig
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Zero Waste

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              How do we get our cities to create NO waste. Things either need to be fully compostable or fully recycleable. There is no waste.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The 3Rs are related to getting to this place.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ZettleKasten tour

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